Newsletter for friends #04: Things and thoughts from October

Hello friends,

Continuing to embrace a calmer digital life instead of drowning in the slurp—and now slop—of social media, I’m sharing with you via this web letter some notable things I’ve been up to or enjoyed in October.

Reading

• How to comment on social media
• Technology is the problem
• What would it take to make decentralized social media “click”?

Democratize not just publishing, but also the governance of the technology that enables it.

The software interoperates; so should we.

• A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for school shootings and measles
• Jeff Bezos’ View from Nowhere

Writing

• Not the fault in our stars but certainly stressful faults on our Moon
• My longest article ever: How ISRO will study Venus alongside NASA and ESA

NASA’s road to the Moon inches through Starship

• Suit up to walk under Moonlight
• Confusion about lunar water

Space, personally

• I write for you, not social media or SEO
• Podcast appearance: Discussing India’s lunar exploration heading with Carnegie India
• LinkedIn rejected my application to their program for journalists..

Thoughts

• Trains over planes
• On the gap between voter turnouts in the US and Indian elections
• Follow my blogs on social media that doesn’t suck!

I’d love to hear what you’ve been up to.

Don’t know what to say? Reply with an interesting link!

Let’s not live an internet without intent.