Hard Refresh
Patrick SharbaughA newsletter about society's reckoning with peak digital saturation — and what comes after.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 12 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | a month ago |
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Can We Please Have the Retrofuture of ‘For All Mankind’?
Apple TV+’s acclaimed original series presents an alt history of the space race, and of the development of personal technology, that diverges profoundly from our own.
Most of us are by now reconciled to living every conscious moment of our...
No, the phone-free school movement is not a moral panic
I don’t know of anyone else writing now who covers modern online youth culture from the inside with more regular insight and zeal than Taylor Lorenz (though The New Yorker’s Kyle Chayka holds down a similar beat with better writing if less...
Just call them. Yes, now.
One of the most unexpectedly enjoyable things about not having social media accounts, I’ve found, is that virtually nobody I know is surprised when I call them out of the blue.
I do this quite often, especially with my international friend...
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
On January 20, about 90 minutes after Donald Trump was sworn in as America’s 47th president, the news explainer outlet Vox debuted a new daily newsletter called The Logoff. Its tagline: “to help you stay informed about Trump — without letti...
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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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