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New Creative Era · Tuesday · 1 hr 3 min

Everyone sits in the same traffic now

The builders of the internet wanted to be the next Steve Jobs. They became the next Robert Moses instead. On a special return episode of New Creative Era, Josh and Yancey discuss how the web went from an open landscape of neighborhoods to a handful of crowded highways — and why those roads are so difficult to leave. As AI redraws the map again, we explore what it would mean to build online spaces that people can change or leave without abandoning their work and communities. A conversation about the ideas in Yancey’s essay “Everyone sits in the same traffic now.” Special note: On November 14, we’ll be doing the first-ever live show of NCE as part of the Durations Festival in NYC. Buy a ticket to the show here. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit metalabel.substack.com

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The builders of the internet wanted to be the next Steve Jobs. They became the next Robert Moses instead.

On a special return episode of New Creative Era, Josh and Yancey discuss how the web went from an open landscape of neighborhoods to a handful of crowded highways — and why those roads are so difficult to leave. As AI redraws the map again, we explore what it would mean to build online spaces that people can change or leave without abandoning their work and communities.

A conversation about the ideas in Yancey’s essay “Everyone sits in the same traffic now.”

Special note: On November 14, we’ll be doing the first-ever live show of NCE as part of the Durations Festival in NYC. Buy a ticket to the show here.



This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit metalabel.substack.com
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