One of the other things I’ve noticed while going through Adam At Last, the blog I started when I was 20, is that my younger self was very good at preserving things my current self had no idea he would want back someday. Twenty-year-old me wasn’t trying to create an archive. He was just telling…

Over the last few days I reconstructed Chasm, a 28-song playlist I made when my marriage ended. I had always understood it as a collection of songs that could wreck me, but going through it one track at a time with Song Why‽ made the structure clearer. Chasm wasn’t just sad music. I built it…

In 2011, I had an idea called All Cameras On. The idea was pretty simple. Everybody suddenly had a camera. Not a good camera, necessarily. This was 2011. Your phone might shoot 720p video if you were fancy. Somebody else might have a point-and-shoot. Somebody might bring a DSLR. Somebody might be holding a Windows…