There is something slightly ridiculous about writing a long essay about algorithms, attention, and the way platforms encourage us to make everything shorter and more immediately consumable. Because this is, of course, a blog post. And apparently nobody has time for those any more. Two-minute reads. Five things you need to know about the ten things. The thing you can understand before your coffee gets cold. So this one is already in trouble ... It is too long. Which is rather

Apparently we managed to release it exactly one week after International Capybara Day. We’d love to say that was carefully planned … but discovering we’d missed it by seven days somehow feels entirely appropriate. This is the final release in our little “gap” trilogy. The same lyrics appear once again, but this time they’ve been transformed into something altogether stranger: squeaky chipmunk-style vocals, bouncing pop energy, a chorus of tiny mice and, of course, an unhealth

Last week’s release was the line. This Friday, the same words return — but they inhabit a very different place. between the gaps takes the lyric somewhere altogether different: piano, jazz, space, and a singer that seems to drift between presence and absence. That idea found its way into the video too. Sometimes the singer is there. Sometimes only the outline where she should be. Sometimes the two almost meet. I’m becoming fascinated by what happens when the words stay the sa