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Writers

Kyle Chayka

Arts Tech

TikTok and the Vibes Revival

Increasingly, what we’re after on social media is not narrative or personality but moments of audiovisual eloquence.

Kyle Chayka New Yorker Apr 2021 Permalink

Arts

How Beeple Crashed the Art World

Making sense of a $69 million NFT.

Kyle Chayka New Yorker Mar 2021 15min Permalink

Tech

On TikTok

The automatic culture of the world’s favorite new social network.

Kyle Chayka Nov 2020 15min Permalink

Arts Health

How the Coronavirus Will Reshape Architecture

What kinds of space are we willing to live and work in now?

Kyle Chayka New Yorker Jun 2020 20min Permalink

The Empty Promises of Marie Kondo and the Craze for Minimalism

Unpacking the empty promises of the minimalism craze.

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Excerpted from The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism, available January 21st. Chayka on the Longform Podcast.

Kyle Chayka The Guardian Jan 2020 20min Permalink

Business Travel

My Own Private Iceland

On tourism and authenticity.

Kyle Chayka Vox Oct 2019 30min Permalink

Tech

Style Is an Algorithm

On the future of personal taste.

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Chayka on the Longform Podcast

Kyle Chayka Racked Apr 2018 25min Permalink

Travel

When You’re a ‘Digital Nomad,’ the World Is Your Office

A global network of live-work spaces is springing up to serve this new breed of millennial wanderer.

Kyle Chayka New York Times Magazine Feb 2018 15min Permalink

The Grays of Our Lives

On gray.

Kyle Chayka Racked Mar 2017 15min Permalink

Business

Reign, Supreme

Supreme, founded by a secretive self-made millionaire in 1994, is the most influential streetwear brand in the world.

Kyle Chayka Racked Jul 2016 Permalink

Politics

The Library of Last Resort

How the Library of Congress failed to adapt to the 21st century.

Kyle Chayka n+1 Jul 2016 15min Permalink

Media

The Last Lifestyle Magazine

How Kinfolk makes money while driving people crazy.

Kyle Chayka Racked Mar 2016 25min Permalink