Loose topic: Finding aids. In a partly de-physicalized cultural landscape (where even the architecture of the web doesn’t feel much like an architecture any more) are there still ways to follow your nose, or happen across something excellent? How are we finding books, ideas, objects these days?

Apparently he's on to the detective novels now...

I agree on all those things! But fear that might be a request or 3 too far based on the reports I read today!

You may definitely ask! But I fear you may not receive in most cases!!!

Thanks so much Rachel! So glad to hear you're working on writing more about "just enough" in this context - looking forward to reading it when it's out in the world!

It was a fun one to write, and we look at tools that support reciprocity at a community level, ways people are protecting and contributing to the knowledge commons, and what it might look like to build digital technologies within natural limits.

The newsletter also talks about probably the best podcast episode I've heard this year so far, @davidfarrier.bsky.social's Flightless Bird episode "Mysterious Sound" www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6ze...

[From Dunedin: Founding a New World City by Ian Dougherty].

Good idea, thanks!

Oh cool, thank you for looking into this! Not sure how deep I want to dive into this question, but it's tempting to see what I can find!

Was always Hawai'i in the story I heard! Tell me more about this Brazilian lead...

Same! Only thing I can find online is a passing comment in a Critic article "Speculation abounds that the building was originally designed without a roof for somewhere either in Fiji or Hawaii. When the project fell through, the University bought the plans instead.." www.critic.co.nz/features/art...