talked to @janefriedman.com about this, but being a freelancer right now generally means not only failing to have the career trajectory you hoped, but also watching the career trajectory and every dream job you've imagined get incinerated before your eyes.

That would drive me nuts 🙄

I remember reading a big interview with him in New York Mag where he proposes that Harvard + Yale could just MOOCify all their classes, giving everyone access to the "bEsT tEaChErS," and we could just let all these lesser schools fade away :)

I first learned of his existence in the early days the pandemic, when he had some dumb Big Tech ideas about MOOC-ifying higher ed. Since then, I've seen him as an embodiment of the delusional conviction that I'm Rich, Therefore I Must Know How Everything Works

“The deeper one sinks into our nation’s alleged man-boy problem + its potential solutions, the more the woman reader may begin to feel… a chauvinistic gratitude in her sex… What a gift it is… to have no choice in the matter.”

… No single-volume, comprehensive survey, as far as I know, though! Maybe Craig or Lisa know things I don’t! :)

There’s @craigrobertson.bsky.social’s history of the filing cabinet! Lisa Gitelman wrote abt the paperclip for a collection I edited! And JoAnne Yates’s Control through Communication addresses various bureaucratic technologies…

mediacommons.org/tne/pieces/r...

The examples in Hampton's article also remind me of Cait McKinney's fantastic book (which I blurbed!)

And here's where some of that work can happen!