I tweeted this awhile back, but best to repeat it: go out and pick up a copy of the new Task Newsletter. It’s fantastic and well worth your time. It includes, among other things, a chat between David Reinfurt and I about the collaboratively-written and unusually-priced sci-fi novel Philip. (The title, “Out of Phase and High On Fruice: Another Day In Philipville,” pretty much says it all.)

Reference Library posted Task’s “Publish Local” list the other day, but I think it’s well worth reposting:

1) Find what’s missing.
2) Work in the gaps.
3) Figure it out together.
4) Make it visible.
5) Make it viable.
6) Research and plan.
7) Expand existing systems.
8) Plan transparently.
9) Start small.
10) Commit to it.
11) Learn about your local flora.
12) Don’t get permission.
13) Print what you’ve got.
14) Make positive spaces.
15) Find funding.

The project was part of the Forms of Inquiry show and inspired by Christopher Alexander’s seminal book A Pattern Language. Photos of the project here. Project brief and background here.