About
Time Spent is a weekly newsletter about how we spend our time—on care, on craft, with machines, and in media. It's for people building thoughtful lives inside a chaotic world.
Each week, you'll receive one of four rotating essays:
✍️ On Craft & Attention – notes on writing, thinking, and designing time
🧶 On Care & Home – reflections on caregiving, domestic life, and social reproduction
🤖 Companion Machines – essays on emotionally grounded relationships with AI (with optional paid modules)
📚 Media Studies – slow, modular study of books exploring interface, infrastructure, intimacy, and influence, plus occasional essays
What to expect: Essays that slow you down and help you notice patterns in your own life. Writing that treats everyday choices—how you structure your day, respond to technology, or care for others—as worthy of serious attention.
Why subscribe: Whether you're a writer, parent, educator, or systems thinker, this newsletter is an invitation to be more intentional about the invisible work of building a life.
Most essays are free. Paid subscribers receive monthly teaching modules that go deeper into the AI series, with context, emotional skills, and related readings. They also get occasional behind-the-scenes updates on building The Library, my public notebook.
Popular Posts
✍️ Craft: An unusual year (emerging from sabbatical + highlights from 3 years of podcasting)
🧶 Care: Home as a care studio (organizing the metaphor of home as a place of creation)
🤖 AI: OK let's talk about AI + feelings (how not to be swept away by magic and hyperbole)
📚 Media Studies: Who gets to be a journalist? (examining power, access, and the future of news)
Who I Am
After producing and consuming journalism for about a decade, I've come to view it as a mindset for observing the world and listening to people that can be applied to virtually any situation. I'm currently trying to apply this mindset to my daily life.
You can see the formal stuff here.
