Philip I. Thomas

Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in January• Hello from Tokyo! I'm here doing a creative residence at Almost Perfect. If you're in town, come join my presentation Rethinking Work Beyond the Factory Model tomorrow night.  • I published Digital Product Studios, an essay about product studios and a return to craft-focused knowledge work. It includes some photos of my trip to a watchmaking studio in Morioka.   • FRCTNL, the community for fractional tech workers I run, has steadily been growing. Come check it out if you're interested in part-time technology work.  • I've been hosting 6-person dinners for people in the tech industry in New York. If you're interested in joining a future one, let me know. • I've been building a lot of new things on Booklet: More design refreshes, a powerful search engine leveraging OpenAI, and image improvements - with more coming soon. It seems to be working - usage and revenue are steadily increasing.  Things to share• Articles: What is Fractional Work - on the new Fractional Jobs site from Taylor. • Tech: Apple Stolen Device Protection is a new security feature on iPhones you should enable. Screen Studio is an amazing little utility for making screen recordings on Mac - I'm using it for Booklet updates. Inter Font is configurable. `text-wrap: pretty` is my new favorite CSS property.  • Podcasts: Rosalía on Rick Rubin. • Music: Rosalía's first (flamenco) album. A jazz kissa played Under Fire for me when I said I liked music from Argentina. Nina Simone. Young Miko x Bizarrap. • Coffee I'm drinking: Two coffees fermented with an enzyme from Kopi luwak, served at Koffee Mamaya. Nagasawa Coffee in Morioka was amazing. Plans for February• Finally spending some time in NYC. • Continuing the momentum on Booklet's feature development. Where I'll be • Now - 6 Feb: Tokyo 🗼 If you're reading this, let me know if we overlap!