All Episodes
Episodes
Things That Caught My Attention is split into seasons and episodes. Here's what Robin Sloan has to say about personal newsletters and seasons.
Jan 2014Sep 2026
- This is an Excel system, I know this
- Talking to people is fun
- A certain weariness
- Fifteen Minutes Or Less
- For want of a screenless MP3 player
- 3D engines eating the world; Jobs for computers; Digital Transformation by Degree
- Only A Few Esoteric Things
- Strategy UX; Numérasse, Very Specific 3D Game Engine Aesthetics, Humming
- "We Really Didn't Expect This To Work"
- IT'S SIGGRAPH TECHNICAL PAPERS PREVIEW TRAILER TIME, BABY!
- CAPTCHAs, Cryptography and Personhood
- New clouds; Spreadsheets; Half-lives; Snow Crashing chapters 17 and 18
- Point, Click, Adventure
- Absurdity, net-native journalism, Promising No Solutions, Talking and Snow Crashing, chapter 16
- Cats; Writing on the Internet; the Moon; OpenDoc and Componentized Software
- Vestigial; Unions; Weird; and Snow Crashing - Chapter 15, part 2
- No, But Really, Where Do You Start?
- But Where (Or How) Do You Start?
- Seeing Past The Horizon
- Event Horizon, Cars And Trucks Shall Never Meet; Accountability; Snow Crashing - chapter 15
- The Device Becomes The App?
- Cursed Takes; Multiplayer Figma and Low Ping Bastards; Digital Isn’t Better Than Paper
- The Sky Above The Port; Snow Crashing, chapter 14, part 3
- Irritated About Content Moderation; A Few Small Things
- The Return of Snow Crash - Snow Crashing: Chapter 14, part 2
- Get a cozy Data Tiny House, Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive People
- Mist, everywhere
- Blockchain buzz buzz buzz
- Accommodations
- Why Not Put An RFID On Everything, and Griefing
- A New Hope
- Wear a mask. It’ll change your life.
- The One Where I Don't Want To Talk About Substack Just As Much As You Do, And Yet
- Three Things
- Eleven things, and I'm still terrified about that Twitter one
- How can I help you?
- A small collection of things
- Despairing sisyphean absurdity
- No Such Thing As A Blank Slate
- The Defensive Patent Pool
- On The Precipice, supporter edition
- On The Precipice
- An amateur with opinions
- *gestures at everything*
- Why design experiences, when you can design states of mind?
- The One About Writing
- QAnon looks like an alternate reality game
- The One About Risk
- What's the EGOT for Technology and Arts?
- The Location-based Pokemon Game Company