Ryan Tate

The room was filled with a smell of night and firs, and Moomintroll thought: “Good. A family has to be ventilated at times.” He went out on the steps and started out into the damp darkness. ...

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“It was a different world. Toft had no pictures and no words for it, nothing had to correspond. No one had tried to make a path here and no one had ever rested under the trees. They had just wa...

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Bret Victor in a talk with profound implications for modern communications: “The wrong way to understand a system is to talk about it, to describe it. The right way to understand it is to get...

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The Intercept, modern careers, and Aki Kaurismaki - Ryan Tate I wrote about my time at The Intercept

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I make coffee using a stainless steel, double filter, 32 oz french press called the Espro P7. It’s a big improvement over conventional french presses — producing a cleaner cup and keeping co...

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At one point around 2010 I was researching and writing a book while working full time as a gossip blogger at a very fast-paced website. I was basically working both weekdays (on the blog) and we...

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For centuries the cost of distributing information polarized publishing between books, which were comprehensive and timeless, and newspapers, which were essentially diffs of information in books...

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Before she died last month, Renée French was a nurse at New York Presbyterian Columbia Hospital. At some point before that, she rendered an unforgettable performance in downtown indie film icon ...

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I’m noticing a new sort of news site: Supported by philanthropy and reader contributions and focused on a relatively tight niche. One example would be the venture forthcoming from Julia Angwi...

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The past two days in New York, with the spring snowstorm and glorious aftermath, have been among the most beautiful since I moved to New York in 2014. (And I’m pretty bad at capturing on my iPh...

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There is no moment, seen properly, that does not contain God, joy, beauty or whatever your particular name for that ecstasy is. Caterina Fake, possibly referring to a collection of music, Salon...

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I am quoted in Owen Thomas’ San Francisco Chronicle obituary for David Bunnell, a pioneering tech publisher who, along with his son Aaron, gave me my first journalism job at long-gone Upside m...

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Today I’m releasing Typingpool, software that makes audio transcriptions easier and cheaper. Typingpool chops your audio into small bits and routes them to the labor marketplace Mechanical Tu...

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I’ve made the below meal twice so far this fall and it’s fantastically autumnal. Also, fairly forgiving to prepare. I basically stumbled across the main course flipping through one of my go-t...

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“It’s a brutal blend of fascism, corporatism, capitalism, and Stalinism brought together in a very special place. And we made that happen. We unleashed our corporations. We exported our jobs,...

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““In so much of technology, what matters is interoperability and compatibility… Building and extending on top of existing knowledge and infrastructure is how 99% of all improvement gets don...

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Expenses for a 1973 wedding from my former professor Steven Rubio, who writes , “She saved money by making her own wedding dress (and my wedding shirt).”

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“Eventually, the ebook versions of my review may cost more than the operating system.” - Preeminent Mac OS X reviewer John Siracusa on the curious relationship between technologies and stor...

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“When the woman saw herself represented visually on the wall behind her usual puesto the morning after Dobler struck, she began attempting to wash it off.” -Intersections

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