Physical Media Still Rocks

It’s been a while, happy Monday. This is the Monday Letter for June 8th, 2026. Physical Media Still Rocks My move to San Francisco was a bit of a whirlwind. I was lucky enough to get connected with my now-roommates (who are now some of my best friends) before the move, and they ended up securing our place. Only now do I appreciate what a gift that was, getting spared the gauntlet that is the San Francisco housing market. My only preview of our home was a brief Messenger video call where I could make out a few pixels of our space. I didn’t know the neighborhood at all, nor the city, so I had no real sense of what I was walking into. Since then it’s been full of pleasant surprises. One of my favorites has been how quickly the library became part of my life here. I was always going to spend some amount of time at SFPL—my mom is a librarian, after all. Reading is one of my favorite hobbies, and a good library is a small civic miracle: a public, quiet, generous place that makes it easier…