Priya Nair (she/her)

@priya_n

Travel writer & photographer

Travel writer + photographer. Two years of slow travel taught me more about home than any guidebook. Currently: South India by motorbike.

Liam O'Brien @liam_o ·

On Rediscovering Vinyl in the Streaming Age

I sold my parents' record collection at 19. I bought my first turntable at 39. The arc was not what I expected.Streaming made me a less attentive listener. Not because the technology is bad — it is mostly amazing — but …

Zara Ahmed @zara_a ·

On the Politics of Effortless Style

Every fashion publication in the last decade has run some version of the "effortless style" article. The trick they never quite explain is that effortless is not the absence of effort. It is the result of so much editin…

Yuki Tanaka @yuki_t ·

Why Dark Mode Is Harder Than It Looks

The most common mistake in implementing dark mode is treating it as a simple inversion. Take the light theme, swap white for black, swap black for off-white, you are done. The result is a high-contrast nightmare that is…

Vikram Iyer @vikram_i ·

AI Search Optimization Is Just SEO With New Clothes

The SEO industry has decided that the rise of AI search means everything we knew is dead and we need to start over. This is wrong. It is the same mistake the industry made about voice search in 2018, mobile-first in 201…