First, An Event Apart ended their amazing conferences and now A Book Apart has closed up shop. I can’t help but feel like the Internet is continuing to become a lesser form of itself.

We need to diversify the kinds of people who make software, the kinds of problems they’re solving, and the philosophies and worldviews that govern how they build. Putting every software creator inside a tiny, privileged bubble that’s awash in VC cash and obsessed with hierarchical status games isn’t going to give us novel, “innovative”, or diverse software that serves the needs of everyone.

• Maggie Appleton, Leaving Elicit

The impossibly blue Lake Michigan from Sleeping Bear Dunes.

Remote work isn’t, by definition, better or worse than IRL work. But it is different, and it is a necessary adaptation in an era marked by climate change and the slow collapse of long-neglected infrastructures. It’s past time to engage with its flaws directly, instead of always harking back to a fabricated office history we never lived in and cannot return to.

• Mandy Brown, Official Myths

I can’t overstate how beneficial working fully remote for the past four years has been for myself and my family.

Post-storm sunset.