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Walking the margins: how places reveal themselves in the gaps
From the cul-de-sac to the canal path, our built environments shape how we move, think, and belong. Psychogeography isn’t dead—it might just have moved…
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Nicolás Boullosa
Quiet corners of the internet: on friendship, inquiry & slow connection
The internet can sometimes live up to its promise and be a force for good. One of the places where we think this is true is purpose-driven online…
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Nicolás Boullosa
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Slouching Towards the Singularity: AI musings from Telegraph Avenue
On Telegraph Avenue from Oakland to Berkeley, where rebellion once thrived, conformity and resignation now scroll by. What does it mean to stay human in…
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Nicolás Boullosa
When a friend dies, the algorithm falls silent: friendship & grief today
We live amid digital echoes and fading connections. Yet when a friend dies, the quiet truth breaks through. Social media gives us false proximity, and…
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Nicolás Boullosa
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Civilizational purity myth: zeitgeist, DNA, & the fiction of unmixed origins
From Nazi archaeology to modern Egyptian nationalism, the search for ancestral purity distorts the very idea of civilization—founded not on isolation…
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Nicolás Boullosa

June 2025

Until it’s gone syndrome: seeing home through the eyes of distance
From a forgotten Mediterranean hillside to the streets of Paris and Barcelona. On presentism, memory, and the clarity that comes from leaving.
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Nicolás Boullosa
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We needed uncomfortable intellectuals. Instead, we got ad-engaged influencers
As we leave Spring behind, some of us already miss a few of the intellectual and spiritual heavyweights that left us in a moment when we don’t have…
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Nicolás Boullosa
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Solar sailing & the spirit of Walden: charging with the sun, thinking with Thoreau
A journey that began with a baby in a pouch, a college dorm bed, and Thoreau’s pond. From solar cars to off-grid dreams, chasing the future at the pace…
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Nicolás Boullosa
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May 2025

Book launch dispatches: In praise of unrushed stories & Life-Changing Homes
Step inside homes that transformed lives. Discover stories that linger, not scroll past. It is a book for readers who savor depth over speed.
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Nicolás Boullosa
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Echoes across the water: the San Francisco Bay islands
From Dumas’ Château d’If (Marseilles) to Alcatraz and Angel Island in the Bay Area, islands have long mirrored society’s fears, fantasies, and the…
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Nicolás Boullosa
Collapse and anti-collapse: quiet power of self-organizing to build things
A cult sci-fi saga returns to spotlight our obsession with collapse. But not all places spiral downward. Pepe Mujica’s passing is a mirror held against…
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Nicolás Boullosa
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Urban vs. suburban vs. countryside: family setups as kids grow older
In the rhythm of errands and chance encounters, streets offer more than transit—they host a choreography of connection and meaning. Other places also…
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Nicolás Boullosa
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