FYI #103

• An interesting conversation with The Economist’s president, Luke Bradley-Jones, via The Rebooting Show

• Australia’s public libraries are thriving as the cost of living rises. We can’t afford to lose them, by Heather L. Robinson, via The Conversation

• Present at the destruction: A larger Australia — ten years on, speech by Lowy Institute Executive Director, Michael Fullilove

• Freedom on the Net 2025: An Uncertain Future for the Global Internet, via Freedom House

• What's a Dark Forest?, via the New Creative Era podcast. The discussion prompted me to reread Yancey Strickler’s 2019 essay The dark forest theory of the internet

• Heaven Help Us, by Maira Kalman

• Our Common Nature, by Yo-Yo Ma… ‘a cultural journey, a celebration of the ways nature can reinvigorate the human experiment, reuniting us in pursuit of a common future’

• The Spanish Quarantine Island Residency Where Artists Disconnect—and Phones Are Banned, via Colossal

• Wes Anderson: The Archives, exhibition at the Design Museum in London

• Samin Nosrat: Do Dinner Parties Have Healing Powers? via The Sam Sanders Show

• The tiny but deeply beautiful west London flat of gallerist Lyndsey Ingram, via House & Garden

• How a 60sqm Historic Maltese Flat Became a Bright, Functional Home, via Never Too Small

• Shanti Rides Shotgun, short film directed by Charles Frank (h/t The Browser)

• Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged: How a near-disaster became an iconic live performance, via ABC News