Hard Refresh
Patrick SharbaughA newsletter about society's reckoning with peak digital saturation — and what comes after.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues |
|---|---|---|---|
| Publishes | Weekly | Issues | 9 |
| Subscribers | Read | hardrefresh.substack.com |
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An anti-Valentine's Day weekend roundup
Good morning, stalwart buckers of the attention economy, and welcome to the glitter-spackled circus of mass consumption, shame and guilt that is Valentine’s Day Weekend. Here in Lisbon, it’s a non-event, which is both disorienting and a sal...
Opting out of the news-catastrophization industrial complex
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The ways we'll claw back our lives from Big Tech in 2025 , part 2
Earlier this month, I peered into the tea leaves of 2025 and posted the first of two newsletters making some informed bets about what the coming year holds regarding our collective exhaustion with digital maximalism. The upshot: I believe t...
The ways we'll claw back our lives from Big Tech in 2025, part 1
Like many of you, I suspect, I take each new year’s predictions somewhat less than seriously. I’m sure they make for highly clickable content (more on that word in a moment) around holiday time. But I find grand prognostications in general ...
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Design ethnographer, former journalist & American in exile writing about what comes after peak digital saturation from my lair in Lisbon, Portugal.
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