Section
Essays
Long arguments, slowly made. One idea followed further than is comfortable.
Repair
The Honest Screw
Why the humble screw — not glue — decides whether the things we own can be loved for decades.
Night Shift
In Praise of the Server Room Hum
The internet has a sound, and it lives in a converted warehouse in the port.
Water
Living Below Sea Level
A delta city makes peace with the thing that could drown it — and pretends not to think about it.
Borrowed
Against Owning a Drill
An argument for keeping fewer things, and more people, within reach.
Noise
In Defence of the Neighbour’s Piano
Scales through the wall, the same sonata every evening, and why I would miss it if it stopped.