Why I’ve Started Playing With Legos

A surprisingly great way to pull your brain away from your keyboard

Clive Thompson

8 min readDec 1, 2023

A small car made from a black Lego brick with two sets of wheels attached beneath it, a angled clear brick for window shield, and a white brick at the back, holding two round bricks that looked like jet engines, pointing at the back of the car — Vroom.

See that car above?

I just made that.

With my new Lego set.

Which I now carry around town. I am in my mid-50s, by the way.

Written by Clive Thompson

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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

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