Editor/Manager of Digital Experiences in Brooklyn, NY - 48
What do you like to do in your free time?
Read, cook, play board and card games with my daughter, walk, create terrible rhyming verse.
What do you know the most about?
Books and bookselling, editing (prose), digital reading experiences, sundry bits of trivia.
What do you like about the Listserve?
I love the "push" nature of the Listserve, the fact that it just shows up in my inbox, hence inviting me to interact with it differently than all the other things I deal with on my phone. I like that it is lo-fi. I like the sense of serendipity with it, the real sense of finding the occasional four-leaf clover. I like the democratic aspect of it, the notion that everyone gets a moment on stage.
What do you NOT like about the Listserve?
Sometimes long periods go by when I see nothing but posts that don't interest me. Sometimes I would like to invite a poster to do a follow-up. I would like there to be an easy way (though maybe also lo-fi) to find out if other people were interested in the stuff I was interested in, and maybe connect with them. I feel a bit like an island, receiving messages in bottles from other islands.
Why are you interested in this project?
Because most of the opportunities I get to help make things come through work, where the desired end-state is more constrained. This seems like a particularly intriguing possibility to help make something good and to work with people who are smarter than I am -- both of which are opportunities one shouldn't pass up.
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what are the 10 best posts that ever were on the Listserv and how can I find other things written by those people.