What I'm up to - February 2024

Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media.

What I did in January

• Hello from Tokyo! I'm here doing a creative residence at Almost Perfect. If you're in town, come join my presentation Rethinking Work Beyond the Factory Model tomorrow night.
• I published Digital Product Studios, an essay about product studios and a return to craft-focused knowledge work. It includes some photos of my trip to a watchmaking studio in Morioka.
• FRCTNL, the community for fractional tech workers I run, has steadily been growing. Come check it out if you're interested in part-time technology work.
• I've been hosting 6-person dinners for people in the tech industry in New York. If you're interested in joining a future one, let me know.
• I've been building a lot of new things on Booklet: More design refreshes, a powerful search engine leveraging OpenAI, and image improvements - with more coming soon. It seems to be working - usage and revenue are steadily increasing.

Things to share

• Articles : What is Fractional Work - on the new Fractional Jobs site from Taylor.
• Tech: Apple Stolen Device Protection is a new security feature on iPhones you should enable. Screen Studio is an amazing little utility for making screen recordings on Mac - I'm using it for Booklet updates. Inter Font is configurable. text-wrap: pretty is my new favorite CSS property.
• Podcasts: Rosalía on Rick Rubin.
• Music: Rosalía's first (flamenco) album. A jazz kissa played Under Fire for me when I said I liked music from Argentina. Nina Simone. Young Miko x Bizarrap.
• Coffee I'm drinking: Two coffees fermented with an enzyme from Kopi luwak, served at Koffee Mamaya. Nagasawa Coffee in Morioka was amazing.

Plans for February

• Finally spending some time in NYC.
• Continuing the momentum on Booklet's feature development.

Where I'll be

• Now - 6 Feb: Tokyo 🗼

If you're reading this, let me know if we overlap!