Hearthless: How Streaming Stole Our Shared Fires
How the shift from scheduled broadcasts to on-demand streaming changed the way we gather around our stories.
Probing emerging technology by building with it.
Experiments and patterns from the edge of technology and culture — shared in public as I find them.
Recent Writing
The Global Derealization
On how experiencing the world through screens during a pandemic creates a collective sense of unreality.
Weeknotes 2535 - The Loop Underneath
The CNI wrap-up shipped four days late. The post-mortem went one layer deeper than productive procrastination — to the energy loop that was making it inevitable.
CNI Spring 2026 - Four Bridges
A wrap-up from CNI Spring 2026 in Salt Lake City. Libraries as the bridge in AI decisions on campus, and four concrete patterns of what that bridging actually looks like in practice.
Weeknotes 2534 - Eight Signals and a Third Slip
I went to the conference that was supposed to force the ship. It didn't. Tonight I named the pattern and shrunk the first ship.
Who's Behind The Board
David Nuñez probes emerging technology by building with it — small experiments at the edge of technology and culture. By day he's Director, Metadata and Digital Platforms at Baker Library, Harvard Business School, where he's helping the library figure out AI. Previously Director of Technology at the MIT Museum, and an MIT Media Lab grad studying human-robot interaction.
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