digital field notes

An Algorithmic Becoming

From music playlists to credit scores, our lives have become deeply entangled with algorithmic technologies. How do we begin to understand this…

Jan 17 • Yunindita Prasidya

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December 2025

How does a writer find her voice?

On homecoming, journalism as an industry, and being a writer in an LLM world

Dec 28, 2025 • Yunindita Prasidya

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November 2025

A case against numbers game

The numbers game is outdated—we shouldn't be advising people to play the numbers game

Nov 8, 2025 • Yunindita Prasidya

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September 2025

On milestones, endings and beginnings

An update from digital field notes

Sep 4, 2025 • Yunindita Prasidya

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July 2025

London in transit: Between defeatism and optimism

A series of observations about the city’s tech scene, gathered from many leisurely walks

Jul 11, 2025 • Yunindita Prasidya

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June 2025

The internet isn’t real anymore

AI-generated content is littering the web, and we are increasingly unable to tell apart what’s real and what isn’t. How did we get here?

Jun 20, 2025 • Yunindita Prasidya

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Seeing, as informed by computer vision

What we learn about sight from understanding how computers see

Jun 2, 2025 • Yunindita Prasidya

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May 2025

The Demo Gods are Gods of Mischiefs

A new product rollout, a room full of people waiting to be impressed, and a demo that didn’t go according to plan — who to blame if not the demo gods?

May 5, 2025 • Yunindita Prasidya

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April 2025

Introducing digital field notes

A publication about technology as culture, written for the tech-curious

Apr 26, 2025 • Yunindita Prasidya

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Why do VCs say they are different from other VCs?

When talking to venture capitalists (VCs), I keep noticing how they feel the need to differentiate themselves from other VCs. In this newsletter, I…

Apr 11, 2025 • Yunindita Prasidya

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March 2025

Entering the unicorn playground

I immersed myself in the world of venture capitalists in Indonesia for a month. I interviewed over 20 people, from fresh hires to senior VCs. Here's how…

Mar 5, 2025 • Yunindita Prasidya

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February 2025

On writing about finance as a journalist-turned-anthropologist

I took a Master's in Digital Anthropology and wrote a 15,000-word ethnography about the culture of venture capitalists in Indonesia. Here's a preface to…

Feb 25, 2025 • Yunindita Prasidya

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