Hyperplace began in 2021 as an experiment with my friend Barış Gümüştaş. We set out to build a place to collect ideas, visually explore them, and see how they come together in new ways. We still maintain it, though we’re not actively developing it now.
I was reading The Sand Wolf by Åsa Lind to the kids tonight, and we reached a section called “Thinking Exercise”. In it, Zackarina asks the Sandwolf whether birds can think about flying while they’re flying. The …
I was listening to Adam Curtis on The Adam Buxton Podcast (episode 44), where he talks about how politics works best with narrative. He says he came to this realization partly through working with Punchdrunk, the …
I like thinking of conversations from the perspective of connections. When I’m talking, I’m pulling together the ideas that have been on my mind, ordering them in a way that might make sense to you, and sharing …
I started reading Jenny Odell’s book How to Do Nothing. I bought this book a while ago. I was browsing the book at Dussmann, opened a random page which happened to be page 96 and Odell was talking about David …
At the end of the 40th anniversary edition of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, the correspondence between Pirsig and his editor is included. In it, Pirsig tells the editor that the book is finished. That …
I am listening to Maria Popova of Brain Pickings talk with Krista Tippett on her On Being podcast. Popova states that true material of knowledge is meaning and meaning is opposite of trivial. The only thing that …
This book was recommended to me by my friend Emre when he visited Berlin after hearing about what I was trying to accomplish with Hyperplace. It turned out to be one of the most influential books I’ve read.