FYI #109
8 Beautiful Gardens Blooming With Inspiration From 2025, via The Design Files
CTO Elizabeth Stone On The Future of Netflix: “Personalized, Interactive, Immersive”, via Wired’s Uncanny Valley podcast
Rethinking Success | Mia Birdsong, in conversation with Dan Harris
Added to my reading list Don't Forget We're Here Forever: A New Generation's Search for Religion by Lamorna Ash. I enjoyed this London Review Bookshop conversation the author had with James Butler
Two thoughtful posts by Gracy Olmstead, The Gift of Communal Reading and Tanya Berry's Work and Wisdom… But then she observed, “The use of a decent language can change your whole idea of what something is.” It is worth repeating. The use of a decent language can change your whole idea of what something is. That transformative sentence has not left me since. Tanya suggested that the right words could change one’s mind. No, more than that—that the right words could change one’s entire perception and experience of a thing. The right language reanimates our work. But to reanimate our work, we must apply a new habit of naming to the things we do.
100 things that made my year (2025), by Austin Kleon
12 gatherings in 2025 I can’t stop thinking about, by Priya Parker
The Mayor is Listening, a day NYC Mayor Zoran Mamdani spent at the Museum of the Moving Image, in Astoria. I enjoyed watching the speeches and performances at his inauguration, including Lucy Dacus performing ‘Bread and Roses’ and Mandy Patinkin singing ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’, with the PS 22 Chorus. Mayor Mamdani has announced the Mayor’s Office of Mass Engagement (OME), ‘a new City Hall office designed to transform how New Yorkers engage with their government.’
What I gained from replacing the self-checkout with small talk, by Tom Vanderbilt, via Monocle
This floating river cabin in Serbia is a peaceful haven inspired by old shipyards, via Wallpaper*
Currently reading Brian, by Jeremy Cooper
Recommended: Joachim Trier’s film Sentimental Value