Millennial Aesthetics & Anxiety

Examines how younger generations navigate economic precarity and cultural upheaval through distinctive lifestyle aesthetics—from 'premium mediocre' aspirational consumption to 'domestic cozy' retreat—as symptoms of broader civilizational weirdness.

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2024-05-14 Arbitrariness Costs
2023-07-13 Worldly, Yet Carefree
2023-06-14 Hello Again, Seattle
2022-11-03 Storytelling -- End-Times Tales
2022-09-29 Ark Head
2022-08-04 A Dreaming World
2022-07-07 Virtue Degeneracy
2022-05-18 Crisis Mindsets
2022-04-28 Elderblog Sutra: 13
2022-01-12 Storytelling -- Narrative Wet Bulb Temperature
2021-10-05 Storytelling -- Cringe and the Banality of Shadows
2021-05-20 MJD 59,354
2021-01-25 Domestic Cozy: 13
2021-01-21 Nostalgia for Network Effects
2020-12-31 2020 Ribbonfarm Extended Universe Annual Roundup
2020-11-10 MJD 59,163
2020-10-21 MJD 59,143
2020-08-24 Notes: Astounding by Alec Nevala-Lee
2020-06-25 Mansionism 1: Building-Milieu Fit
2020-06-09 A Spectre Is Haunting The West
2020-06-04 MJD 59,004
2020-05-21 New E-Book, and a Portfolio Update
2020-05-07 Leaking into the Future
2020-03-23 Pandemic Dashboard: 1
2020-03-18 Domestic Cozy: 12
2020-03-17 Masks All The Way Down
2020-03-09 Plot Economics
2020-02-18 Weirding Diary: 11
2020-02-13 Domestic Cozy: 11
2020-02-10 MJD 58,889
2020-01-23 Being Your Selves: Identity R&D on alt Twitter
2020-01-16 The Internet of Beefs
2019-12-31 Complete 2019 Roundup
2019-12-16 Domestic Cozy: 10
2019-11-25 Elderblog Sutra: 10
2019-11-13 Mediocratopia: 9
2019-11-04 Domestic Cozy: 9
2019-09-23 Domestic Cozy: 8
2019-09-17 Weirding Diary: 10
2019-08-05 Domestic Cozy: 7
2019-07-22 Domestic Cozy: 6
2019-07-17 Weirding Diary: 9
2019-07-11 Pleasure as an Organizing Principle
2019-07-04 Semi-Annual 2019 Roundup
2019-06-26 Predictable Identities: 12 - Fear, Myths, and the Outgroup, Part II
2019-06-18 Worlding Raga 6: World To Live
2019-05-30 The Age of Diffraction
2019-05-27 Weirding Diary: 8
2019-05-20 Domestic Cozy: 5
2019-05-06 Domestic Cozy: 4
2019-04-12 Domestic Cozy: 3
2019-04-08 Weirding Diary: 7
2019-04-01 Weirding Diary: 6
2019-03-15 Domestic Cozy: 2
2019-03-12 Weirding Diary: 5
2019-03-04 Domestic Cozy: 1
2019-02-18 Weirding Diary: 4
2019-02-08 Mediocratopia: 1
2019-02-04 Weirding Diary: 3
2019-01-30 Weirding Diary: 2
2019-01-24 Weirding Diary: 1
2019-01-17 Stack Luck
2018-11-21 The Age of Early Divinity
2018-10-25 The Speakeasy Imagineering Network
2018-08-16 Refactor Camp 2018: Cryptoeconomics and Blockchain Weirding Post-Mortem
2018-07-24 Armpit Futures
2018-05-17 Refactor Camp: Cryptoeconomics and Blockchain Weirding Summary and Wrap Up
2018-04-24 Survival of the Mediocre Mediocre
2018-03-08 Refactor Camp 2018: Cryptoeconomics and Blockchain Weirding
2018-03-06 A Quick (Battle) Field Guide to the New Culture Wars
2018-03-01 Luxuriating in Privacy
2018-02-01 (Don't) Be the Gray man
2017-12-21 Complete 2017 Roundup
2017-08-17 The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial
2017-08-08 The Crisis of the Lonely Atoms
2017-03-14 Sanity on the Weird Timeline
2017-03-07 Sulking Through a Subprime Presidency
2017-02-16 Unbuilding the Wall
2017-02-07 Shift Register Code Breaking Out of the Echo Chamber
2016-12-30 Complete 2016 Roundup
2016-10-18 Can the European Union Break Smart?
2016-09-01 The Origin of Authenticity in the Breakdown of the Illusion of the Real
2016-08-11 Trace of the Weirding
2016-07-25 Weird Crowds, Weird Planet
2016-07-16 The Weird State of the State
2016-07-13 Welcome to Nixonland
2016-07-05 Refactor Camp 2016: Weird Political Economy
2015-09-22 Significance Appreciation
2015-05-13 Technopaganism and the Newer Age
2015-04-15 The Capitalist's Zombie
2014-07-30 The Heirloom Lounge
2013-07-31 The Quality of Life
2013-07-10 You Are Not an Artisan
2013-04-03 The Locust Economy
2013-01-16 Eternal Hypochondria of the Expanding Mind
2012-08-09 The Interesting Times Triangle
2012-05-03 Rediscovering Literacy
2011-12-08 Acting Dead, Trading Up and Leaving the Middle Class
2011-11-16 The Evolution of the American Dream
2011-11-11 Technology and the Baroque Unconscious
2011-07-07 The End of the Parade
2011-01-06 The Gollum Effect
2010-11-06 The World of Garbage
2010-06-16 The Missing Folkways of Globalization
2010-05-06 Two Interesting Gervais Principle Follow-Ups
2010-03-13 Linchpin by Seth Godin, and 8 Other Short Book Reviews
2009-01-18 The Cloudworker, Layoffs and The Disposable American
2008-12-10 Serious Games for Serious Business
2008-09-29 A Generational War (Guest Post on Enterprise 2.0 Blog)
2008-09-04 Maslow for Market Segmentation
2008-07-17 Peter Cappelli's "Talent On Demand"
2008-06-03 Context-Switching Metaphors for Work-Life Blending
2008-05-20 The Evolution of Work-Life
2008-04-05 Generation Blend by Rob Salkowitz
2008-03-09 Trollope, Fitzgerald and Holmes for the Generalist's Soul
2007-11-01 Personal Brands, Identity and Perception Management