Engaged Reading Time - Issue #81

I had the pleasure of teaching Laura some years ago on the Magazine MA at City. She’s been on a difficult journey since her diagnosis, but has come through the other side, and has a book out next year. This put some of my own challenges in perspective.

While some of this is about NFTs 🥱, the idea of digital clothes sold purely for use in social media images is a really interesting development of virtual goods. Buying cosmetic outfits in a game is one thing, buying them as part of the make-believe aspirational world of influencers is quite another. The physical/virtual interface is a fascinating place.

This is six months old, but I came across it when I started thinking about what some offices might be like after being empty for over a year…