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Nobody Reads the Second Page of Anything

On Writing Fewer, Longer Pieces

We halved the publishing schedule and doubled the reading time. Nobody complained, which was itself informative.

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The Quiet Return of the Personal Site

Starting a Publication From Nothing

No investors, no launch plan, and a domain bought at two in the morning. Here is the first year in numbers.

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Your Archive Page Matters More Than Your Homepage

The Return of the Hand Built Page

A generation that never wrote a table layout is writing one on purpose, and the results are better than they have any right to be.

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Everything is a Publishing Tool Now

What Newsletters Learned from Blogs

The inbox rediscovered the archive, the permalink and the RSS feed, in that order, over about four years.

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The Last Working Boatyards of the Adriatic

Designing for the Second Visit

The first visit is a trailer. Almost every design decision worth arguing about belongs to the second one.

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Twelve Hours on the Night Train to Trieste

A Short History of the Sidebar

It began as an index, became an advertisement, and is quietly becoming an index again.

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Jane Doe on Twenty Years of Building Type

Interviewing for Taste

You cannot ask a portfolio why it made those choices. You can ask the person, and the answer is the whole interview.

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Reading in the Age of Infinite Scroll

The Quiet Cost of Infinite Scroll

The feed keeps you longer and leaves you with less. We looked at what readers could recall afterwards.

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