Clive Thompson

Clive Thompson

Cycling

23 stories

A photo of a man's left hand, reaching down to grasp the left handlebar of a bicycle. The handlebars are black, and we only see the left-hand side of the handlebars, with the front wheel of the bicycle out of focus in the background of the picture.
A photo of a young man on a bicycle, riding along a long highway, with a blue sky dotted with clouds above, and a city in the distance ahead
The author’s bicycle, on the Cameron Pass over the Rocky Mountains. It has two red pannier bags over the rear wheels and two red pannier bags over the front wheels; in the background are mountains and a cloudy sky
Clive Thompson

Clive Thompson

Writing hacks

11 stories

Clive Thompson

Clive Thompson

Rewilding your attention

8 stories

A forest, with rays of sunlight in behind the trees, radiating towards the viewer, through a slight mist in the air
Clive Thompson

Clive Thompson

"Linkfests" -- weekly linkblogs full of reading

66 stories

A cluster of roughly two dozen metal spoons on which human eyes have been painted
A photo of the “Cosmic Flare Oil Wheel” by Optikinetics. It is a round wheel, flat like a record in a record player, seen from above. It has multicolored splashes of paint/dye all over it in irregular patters — blobs of orange, areas of yellow and white, blue and red too. The periphery of the disk is dark black, as the center
A picture of Charles Young’s paperwork: There are dozens of tiny buildings and vehicles made from colorful paper arrayed together on a white table, so that it looks like a city seen from above
Clive Thompson

Clive Thompson

Book Author

I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net