A Commonplace Book by Mail

From December 2019 to April 2026, I wrote Time Spent, a newsletter on how we spend our time outside of work. Over six years and 100+ letters, the ebbs and flows of navigating my own lived experience of this question collided intensely with a world asking the same questions through a pandemic, awakening around care work and the transformation of knowledge work through intelligent tools.

These days life feels like a long investigation into what comes after the structures we’ve long depended on dissolve. What began as a personal inquiry grew into big questions about care, mothering, AI, the future of news, and intergenerational life.

Journalism trains you to offer tidy stories but I have none. Art, on the other hand, offers space. So I’m experimenting with sending out my raw working material to invite you into the inquiry: reading lists (drawn from The Library), observations, references, half-formed questions, the occasional reported note, the occasional letter. Each mailing is printed and sent from my dining table in San Francisco.