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About twelve years ago, I maintained a website with a handful of regular readers. At some point, I was tired of talking to them via the web (and the occasional email although I've never been very good with responding in a timely manner), so I sent out my address and requested that people send me some postcards. Here are some of the ones I got.
I got around 15 in total from random, sometimes awesome internet strangers. I must have exchanged hundreds of personal emails over the last fifteen years and it doesn't really surprise me that this handful of postcards from strangers is what I've kept.
I was reading a blog post the other day about how digital service companies (such as Google) don't get nearly as much mythological brand cred as a company like Apple (a more physical company). I don't know if that's entirely true, but again, I'm not surprised that the author was suggesting physical items hold more resonance with us than digital ones.
I updated some structural elements of my website today to reflect that my thesis topic is no longer about attention (too broad). I didn't want to directly say it was about email either, though, because although it is, that is somewhat of a practicality. I can't help but wish that the things we spend hours doing are things that matter. My thesis doesn't really address this because that wouldn't be a design thesis. I really don't know what that would be.
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