Brutalist house in Argentina looks like another planet
The links are making a double batch of peanut brittle—the kitchen is a total mess.
This time we’re colliding podcasts, dithering, two friends, the best site in the world for train travel and a rare peek inside our Lab. Please skip around, read what you want to. Find something interesting in your own internet travels? Send me a link
—JH
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Bring yourself and any teachers, writers or designers you work with on learning paths. I think you’re really going to like this one!
10 curious links that would have killed the cat
🎙️ Age of Audio is a documentary exploring podcasts as a media type with the likes of Ira Glass, Marc Maron and Roman Mars. “You had to be a pretty devoted fan to listen to a podcast. First of all, you had to figure out they existed.” Only gets better from there.
Age of Audio ∙ Documentary
🐚 Speaking of podcasts: Podcast “Shell Game” is back for season 2. I loved listening through the host attempting to replace his own job as a journalist with an AI voice bot in S1. Now he’s back to co-found an agentic AI startup—and both of his cofounders are AI agents. It’s a ride already.
Shell Game ∙ Podcast
🔠 Montreuil, an experimental font from OH No Type Co. It’s a normal font. But it also has sets of tops and bottoms to play with stair-stepping your letters. Fun! Pathwright uses OH No’s Degular.
OH No Type Co ∙ Foundry
🟥🟩🟦 What is dithering? Graphically, I mean. Not that thing when you can’t decide if it’s worth it to go back to the store for the can of tomatoes you forgot, or maybe the recipe will be okay without them? Hard to say…
Damar Aji Pramuditya ∙ Blog
🎬 Madeleine, a short film about two friends. “Every week, two friends born 67 years apart share their life stories in a senior home's living room. The younger friend convinces the 107-year-old lady to join her in an adventure: a road trip to the sea.”
Vimeo ∙ Video
Concrete house in Argentina
🏠 Holy Brutalism, this house! Where’d they get this, Cloud City? (As you know, “Brutalism” refers to the root for “concrete”, not to any sort of brutality.)
Dwell ∙ Article
📚 Meet the 2025 National Book Award finalists. Lithub does Q&A with the authors. Total catnip for me. Heads up that the convos are unfiltered.
Literary Hub ∙ Article
✈️ Overflight Fee Calculator. When your flight flies over a country without landing, the airliner pays a fee. Curious how much your flight is costing them? Now you can check. From my place to Italy—$558.
Overflight Fee Calculator ∙ Website
🚂 If that’s not your thing: The best site in the world for booking train travel. Yes, I know it looks like that. But try it out. Here’s the site’s creator talking about his own recent trip—Tring to Turkey—by rail.
The Man in Seat 61 ∙ Website
🥂 21 facts about throwing good parties. Right off the bat: “Prioritize your ease of being over any other consideration: parties are like babies, if you’re stressed while holding them they’ll get stressed too. Every other decision is downstream of your serenity: e.g. it's better to have mediocre pizza from a happy host than fabulous hors d'oeuvres from a frazzled one.”
Atoms vs Bits ∙ Article
in Greenville, SC
Two news items for you:
1️⃣ The final session of PathCamp is coming up this Thursday! We’re taking you inside the Lab at Pathwright to show a huge update to Home and a new feature called Cover Pages. It’ll be an exclusive look we haven’t shared anywhere yet. This would be the perfect session to bring anyone who works with you on course design or branding to—they won’t want to miss it.
2️⃣ In case you missed it last time, Paul wrote a long article on where we think the internet is going, complete with diagrams, links and annotations. We’re really proud of this one. It’s right up your alley too, check it out.
Here’s something that may surprise you about me, a web worker: I love physical media. I’m talking movies on disc. Streaming is fine—I do actually love VPNing to another region to watch something on Netflix. But even with fiber internet at home, it’s compressed. You really notice in the pixelated shadows of any dark shot or the garbage disposal-sounding audio of a crowd scene.
But there’s only so much room on my shelves. Here’s my personal 3 criteria for buying a disc: 1) I’d have to rent it or pay for a streaming service to see it—buying is less than double that cost. 2) I’d watch it 3+ times. 3) I don’t want to forget about it.
I just snagged three new inductees for my collection during Barnes & Nobles’ 50% off Criterion Collection sale (still going!). They’ll be waiting for yours truly under the tree next month. Among them: The Others (2001). I just showed my oldest Charade (1963). Maybe we’ll give the Kidman ghost flick a spin over the holidays.
My desert island movies are Charade, Jurassic Park, and My Neighbor Totoro. What about you?
High five,
Justin Hall
Editor, Partner at Pathwright