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Analog by Ben Rennie
Analog is a weekly letter about creativity, climate, and the systems we live within, where design becomes a tool for agency, not aesthetics. A space to explore better ways of living, working, and being.
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The Creative Migration
For almost eighteen years, I have built my writing around a piece of advice from Seth Godin, written long before I ever had the chance to meet him.
Chapter 5: The Affinity Trade
Notes on this chapter.
Higher Ground
Creativity is older than the industry that claims it, and more yours than you have been told.
Serialisation Chapter 4: The Digital Drift
“Easy in, impossible out.”
Serialisation Chapter 3: The Places That Shaped Us
“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?”
Serialisation Chapter 2: Bored to Death!
To understand the second great trade we made with the modern world, I need you to hold something in your mind for a second. Picture the cool, translucent edge of a CD jewel case from September 1991.
Serialisation Chapter 1: The Body Knew First
Welcome to Chapter One, the second installment of my book serialisation for my second book, Be Kind Rewind.
Be Kind, Rewind Serialisation: The Introduction
Serialisation Part 1: On Utah, video stores, and the Invisible Trade of modern life.
I’m Writing My Next Book in Public (And I Want You in the Margins)
I am doing something I have never done before. Honestly, it scares me a little.
Make Culture Creative Again
Even failures and broken starts will be more interesting than the boring stuff.
Be Kind Rewind
It’s 1993.
The Invisible Ingredient
I was planning on writing about the “perfect practice makes perfect” myth this week.
Time After Time After Time, After!
Creativity is the audacity to believe you should do it in the first place.
Humping Elvis & The Right to Be Wrong
We trust the work because we trust the struggle.
Competition Is Overrated
Creation verus Competition.
The Next Creative Revolution Is Happening In Your Living Room
A few years back, I found myself sitting at a pub in Byron Bay watching my mate Dave Fraser chase a football (Soccer) around a field.
Remember When We Used to Own Things?
Why Tactile Memory, Not Convenience, Builds Creative Confidence!
Tesla Was Never The Point!
Mistaking Charisma for Progress (and What It Costs Us).
The Gold Medals We Don’t See
A Letter to My Daughter on the Day of Her Third Surgery.