The Deleted Scenes

a monthly newsletter about place, books, and community

how do we talk more ambitiously about the future? writing about literature and software ˚⟡˖ ࣪from San Francisco

Simple truths about city planning & transportation to help you promote healthy infrastructure.

Musings on our ever evolving relationships to work, home, community, culture, food, the environment, and more.

A ledger of obscure travels, backwoods rambles, rough bivouacs, and cackling cartographies.

Trusted by 70K+ readers, we pick the best-written books from US and UK new releases and prize shortlists, and publish articles by world-class authors on prose style and AI writing. Plus the satire The Demon Inside David Lynch.

City Observatory: What matters to the success of cities.

Exploring urbanism and the world we build for each other.

An account for anyone interested in building the kind of economies that build strong communities, sustainable regions, inclusive societies, and free people.

Newsletter on the strange and quirky histories of popular culture.

Newsletter written on a Smith-Corona Galaxie 12 typewriter. No revisions. Minor copyedits. One page. One take. Thoughts on analog, digital, technology and the world, plus whatever else fills the (actual) page.

Common sense solutions for better cities

Understand the Japanese Psyche with a local English speaker's perspective