Field Notes

Short observations, precisely made.

Field Notes are shorter than Dispatches and closer to the thing they describe. Usually written when something is still fresh enough to be wrong about.

An empty meeting room with chairs around a table and afternoon light through the windowField Note

The Meeting That Could Have Been a Document

Why most meetings exist because someone hasn't written anything down yet.

Tobias Fendt 4 min
Browser tab bar with one persistent tab slightly separated from the restField Note

The Tab You Never Close

It's not procrastination. It's a broken decision.

Tobias Fendt 2 min
An open book beside a laptop showing a plain text documentField Note

On Reading Without Apps

Paper, plain text, and the surprisingly political act of not having a reading tracker.

Maren Solvik 3 min
A blank messaging interface on a laptop screen in a quiet roomField Note

Three Weeks Without Slack

What changed, what didn't, and what I rebuilt instead.

Tobias Fendt 3 min