Riiven Slants
Most of what you call normal is somebody's old idea.
Short observations that lean familiar things until something arbitrary in them tips into view. Not problem reports. Tilts.
Time-Rhythms · 1 Design-Defaults · 1 Language-Bones · 1 Body-Habits · 1 Social-Rituals Tech-Residues · 1
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Body-Habits 1880
First Sleep, Second Sleep
We are built to wake up at 2 AM. The light bulb taught us to call it insomnia.
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Design-Defaults 1942
The Inward Door
Bathroom doors open the wrong way, and the reason is older than the room.
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Language-Bones 1839
OK
The most international word in human history began as a joke spelling that almost ran for president.
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Tech-Residues 1984
The Floppy Disk
The save button is a memory of a thing you might not remember.
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Time-Rhythms
The Seven-Day Week
A pulse we kept beating long after we forgot whose idea it was.
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A new Slant every week. Tiny observations of the things you stopped noticing. None of them solve anything. Some of them might tilt you.