Made in Draft

Tuesday evening on Earth. I am just back from Casablanca. And it felt like a nice in-between.

It all began with a reflection from Solène (Letters From A Girl): a fault line runs through our online lives, between what the digital records about our origins and the much broader reality of what has shaped us. Platforms never record an entire life: they capture visible fragments, then turn them into a legible narrative.

The idea may seem almost anecdotal. And yet it says something central about our time. As our lives take shape online, the question of origin becomes increasingly unstable, and sometimes even conflictual. Not only because we always rewrite our beginnings a little, but above all because platforms impose a very specific narrative framework on what we can say about ourselves. This directly affects the way we shape our identities and, by extension, the way social ties are formed.

A digital narrative that forgets what lies off-frame

Our roots, the neighborhood where we were born, the…