iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 01/08/2025

A little late in saying this but @tkingfisher.com’s A Sorceress Comes to Call was a lovely piece of story and wordcraft. One of my favorite pagebound experiences of the summer.

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 14/07/2025

Absolutely obsessing over Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World - and - Dante’s Divine Comedy. So light reading… and very on topic. 🤣

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 24/06/2025

They say a logo reflects the brand's promise.I

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 17/06/2025

Loved making this episode exploring the question we all should be asking - do we own anything on the internet anymore? Welcome to Remix Culture and the Scraped Internet. www.buzzsprout.com/2365925/epis...

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 25/04/2025

at some point reasonable people have to call this shit out as batshit crazy. the tech bro "thinkers" are not ok.

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 29/03/2025

Let’s not leave out Hasan Piker, the ultimate Gigachad Lib, holding down the fort on Twitch.

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 23/03/2025

Do you ever look at your iPhone and think: who in the Steve Jobs horrified ghost approved that? And by “that” I mean this:

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 20/03/2025

The rules of how we show up online are shifting at a breakneck pace. I talked with my cohost Brad about this and his drive to ditch the internet (maybe you resonate) on this week's episode of Working/Broken: Is Authenticity Working or Is it Broken? www.workingbroken.com or your favorite podcatcher.

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 24/02/2025

If you're not listening to Roberta Flack today, what are you doing?

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 03/02/2025

Good reading month in January with the blend of topics, styles, and formats that keeps me motivated and clear-headed. Other than the top 3 listed the others were not my favorite, but still good. The Bee Sting’s ending… WTF. #booksky

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 03/02/2025

Mr. Free Speech finally says the quiet parts out loud. I will always hold the Muskheads the most responsible for whatever happens from all of this.

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 01/02/2025

The more years go by the more I'm convinced that everything, yes, everything, that we think is happening is really the cerulean sweater.

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 11/01/2025

10,000 words on False Spring complete. A personal look at the cultural implosion of the pandemic up seen through the lens of a Gen Z content creator, his Q-Anon mother, and the secrets and future promises of their middle America community, under the shadow of technofascism. Let's keep going...

Book cover for "False Spring" the first book in the Flyover Saga by Nicholas Duane. Duotone image in bright colors of a shirtless athletic built man in his 20s sitting cross-legged on a country road staring into the rising sun.

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 05/01/2025

This is gladiator murder monkey erasure and I won’t stand for it.

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 24/12/2024

A message worthy of Christmas Eve. (From the back cover of The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer)

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 15/12/2024

Finished You Dreamed of Empires. A gorgeous and one-of-kind work. Like nothing I’ve ever read. Deserving of all the year end lists it’s making. #books

A hardcover copy of Álvaro Enrique’s book You Dreamed of Empires is held up for a picture.

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 14/12/2024

📚I🩶ed: My First Book by Honor Levy: Levy has been framed as the first GenZ Wunderkind of Letters and she certainly shows she deserves it with this collection of essays. It sparkles and burns. Giving us a window in the current currencies of youth culture without any need to explain or defend. 1/2

Book cover of My First Book by Honor Levy

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 10/12/2024

Lots of big questions legimately questioning the entire ecosystem for marketing and growth in 2025. The rules have dramatically changed. We're gonna talk about it. #marketingsky #marketing culturecraftagency.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 02/12/2024

Finally getting to this. Very excited!

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 02/12/2024

A month of incredible books! But the two that will live with me the longest will definitely be “Lies of the Land” - a look at the story we tell ourselves about rural America and “A Children’s Bible” the breathtaking and swift climate dystopia novel. They go well together!

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 25/11/2024

Mrs. Holland had a Squirt can she would put on the corner of her desk for 25 minutes every day after lunch recess and we knew what time it was: Super Quiet Uninterrupted Reading Time.

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 25/11/2024

Should finish Blackouts this week. Chilling. Just starting The Will of the Many based on a BlueSky recommendation!

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 24/11/2024

The not so rare unsorted books sighting.

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 24/11/2024

Just reading from my cutie patootie little collection of pre-loved Shakespeare plays. The Tempest is buckwild. “Hell is empty. All the devils are here.”

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 23/11/2024

Ok absolute loving When the Clock Broke. Just finished the chapter on Ross Perot and holy Moses we should have seen this Trump thing coming. The parallels are uncanny. Makes me weirdly hopeful?

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 21/11/2024

“every misinterpretation is a confession” 💣💣💣

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 21/11/2024

Trail of Seeds by James A. Pearce

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 21/11/2024

Finished The Vanity Fair Diaries. Combination of the Name Drop Olympics and a Pres Trump origin story. She writes snappy sentences tho.

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 20/11/2024

I'm gonna say this real gently... but what if we got past the logotype and see that maybe the Jaguar campaign actually... WORKS? And its doing something really distinct?

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 20/11/2024

And this is one of the good ones. on my mother's request I did may parents bedroom in maroon, forest green, and gold. All on the same walls. Gorgeous.

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 20/11/2024

A Children’s Bible (not a Bible)

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 19/11/2024

For all of you who were worried about #wicked... reviews are starting to come in. Rolling Stone said "Cynthia Erivo is a god" @jamiebgolden.bsky.social heard your nerves on TMYK today... It's gonna be great.

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 18/11/2024

I’m reading When the Clock Broke about the rise of the extreme right in the early 1990s and the final in an unofficial trilogy re: how Boomers killed America. Started with The Conquest of Cool about 60s/70s Madison Ave and then The Vanity Fair Diaries by Tina Brown.

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 17/11/2024

Doing some catchup on the backlist this month. This was gentle and sly and heartbreaking and true and the absolute best way a dystopian novel can be written. Doesn’t exceed Station Eleven but comfortably lives in its legacy. “Maybe art is the ghost.” #BookSky

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 17/11/2024

For the past 10 years I've written a new murder mystery story and party game for my friends... we gather each year on (or near) the Ides of March to play. Getting started a little early this year. Per usual, excited and nervous: Ides of March 2025 - The Fiona Havens Narrative. Fecit per Memoriam.

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 16/11/2024

Four movies you’d watch for the rest of your life if they were the only movies you had access to 🎥 #moviesky

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 13/02/2024

The absolute cry for mercy in the subtext here is *chef’s kiss*

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