Other Worlds Catalog

Is 2026 the year of the good phone?

Before we can fix our phones, we need to know what's wrong with them

Mar 18 • Derek Beyer

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January 2026

How I disconnected from tech in 2025

And how this simple spreadsheet will help you do it in 2026

Jan 22 • Derek Beyer

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December 2025

Is anyone else thinking of joining the Hivemind?

On our addiction to individuality

Dec 31, 2025 • Derek Beyer

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Cowboys and octopodes: What I read in 2025

I’ve got no love for the end-of-year round-up lists put out by big publications.

Dec 11, 2025 • Derek Beyer

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November 2025

Solving for Why

How to turn abstract values into concrete action

Nov 10, 2025 • Derek Beyer

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August 2025

An abundance of puzzle-boxes: A guide to reading Gene Wolfe

If you asked me who the greatest fiction writer in the English language was — living or dead — I’d give an answer that isn’t in many top ten lists: Gene…

Aug 28, 2025 • Derek Beyer

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April 2025

The year of "Only connect!"

On various attempts to re-center humanity in my life

Apr 1, 2025 • Derek Beyer

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March 2025

The ones who walk away from Section 31

Or, how cynicism masquerading as realism constrains our moral imagination and becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy that sabotages the futures we might…

Mar 6, 2025 • Derek Beyer

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February 2025

The struggle in our stars

AD ASTRA, PER ASPERA

Feb 7, 2025 • Derek Beyer

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December 2024

A year of social dreaming through books

365 days of reading about technology, progress, and the human spirit

Dec 30, 2024 • Derek Beyer

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November 2024

No such thing as a protest vote

On certain schemes to outsmart our electoral system.

Nov 1, 2024 • Derek Beyer

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July 2024

Despair is a broken compass

On the power of prefigurative belief

Jul 11, 2024 • Derek Beyer

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