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Kernel | Editor’s Note

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It’s easy to feel like the future is always arriving. It’s the age of AI, headlines blare; the age of automation, of surveillance capitalism, of remote work, of distraction. Before that, the age of social media, of the internet, of information overload and big data. We live in a flood of prophecies, the age of ages, drowning in news and takes and things to know. Why add to this cacophony? In short, because we still have more to say. Reboot was founded in 2020, and Kernel’s first issue was published in 2021. In these short intervening years, we — the core and founding teams of the first versions of the newsletter and magazine — have collectively graduated, landed jobs, quit jobs, gone back to school, moved across the U.S. and back. We’ve learned to live with Covid-19, seen longstanding publications shutter and resurrect, watched the tech industry go through an entire boom-bust cycle. SUSTAIN is as much about the content of this issue as it is about our decisions to keep going. If in Ker

Kernel | Editor’s Note Issue 3 Editor’s Note written by Jessica Dai It’s easy to feel like the future is always arriving. It’s the age of AI , headlines blare; the age of automation, of surveillance capitalism, of remote work, of distraction. Before that, the age of social media, of the internet, of information overload and big data. We live in a flood of prophecies, the age of ages, drowning in news and takes and things to know. Why add to this cacophony? In short, because we still have more to say. Reboot was founded in 2020, and Kernel’s first issue was published in 2021. In these short int

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