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It's Decorative Gourd Season...
Plus: Only 50% of Vinyl Collectors Own a Record Player; Ant Geopolitics; How Cat Memes Went Viral 100 Years Ago; & more...
Oct 25
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Hannah Smith
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September 2024
Fun with fake words
Thoughts on writing; The Glass Door of Wikipedia’s Notable People; The Secret Inside One Million Check Boxes; Lauren Redniss' graphic biography…
Sep 6
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Hannah Smith
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August 2024
PR Pitch Writing: Autumn Course Dates Plus a Free Zoom Workshop
Learn how to write PR pitches that generate top-tier media coverage. Four live sessions delivered over Zoom, beginning October 10th.
Aug 20
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Hannah Smith
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PR Pitch Writing: Autumn Course Dates Plus a Free Zoom Workshop
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The Problem with "Resulting"
A Better Way to Evaluate the Decisions you Make; Life on the Likert Scale; The Love Letter Generator that Foretold ChatGPT; Digital Collage by Beto Val…
Aug 2
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Hannah Smith
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The Problem with "Resulting"
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July 2024
Welcome to PizzaNet!
What the internet looked like in 1994; The telltale words that could identify generative AI text; What Game of Thrones did to the media; Nick Gentry’s…
Jul 12
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Hannah Smith
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June 2024
Forget the noun, & do the verb
Hello there :) Welcome to issue eighty four of Manufacturing Serendipity, a loosely connected, somewhat rambling collection of the unexpected things…
Jun 28
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Hannah Smith
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Welcome to your dystopian future, friends!
Thoughts on Ikea's new "dream job" campaign; a potted history of the pocket t-shirt; the shape of space; a relief map of Manhattan; & more...
Jun 14
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Hannah Smith
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Welcome to your dystopian future, friends!
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May 2024
The value of “close reading”
Plus: The Most Commonly Used 4-Digit PIN Codes; Shape-Shifting Vines; The Rediscovery of a "Lost" Typeface; & more...
May 31
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Hannah Smith
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The value of “close reading”
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The Eel-luminati
A lot of facts about eels (yes, really); WTAF chairs; Third Places; Grammatical Nerdery; Collage by Chantel Walkes; & more...
May 17
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Hannah Smith
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The Eel-luminati
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Stealing frameworks from game design...
Plus: When do we stop finding new music?; The Fictional Brands Archive; Reclaiming Slowness; Micro knits from Althea Crome; & more...
May 3
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Hannah Smith
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Stealing frameworks from game design...
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April 2024
Which way is up?
Getting Lost; 20 Years of PostSecret; 2 Kinds of Attention; Artist's Block; Han Cao's Embroidered Photographs; & more...
Apr 19
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Hannah Smith
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Moving slowly and considering things
Some thoughts on making decisions.
Apr 5
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Hannah Smith
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