people i've met on the internet

finding beauty and friendship in the doom scroll

If I succumbed to my true self, my inner subterranean being, I’d be a luddite, surrounded by piles of books in a Left Bank apartment, with a deleted instagram account, cabinets full of chinoiserie, potentially with many cats. A venerable publication recently called my taste “a touch of Paris grandma”, a descriptor I reveled in, thought it’s unclear if it was meant as an actual compliment.

Despite my fantasies of utter eccentricity, I spend a lot of time on the internet. This is largely work induced, but the rabbit hole of inspiration has born a few fruits, including accidental internet to IRL friendships I’ve forged with creative talents from the vast depths of the world wide web.

Today, internet friends of mine that you should know:

Talia Shuvalov, Designer/Founder, Erede

Where I Met Her: Craigslist

I’ve met exactly one person on Craigslist, and it happened to be a remarkably talented Parsons design student with whom I shared a Tribeca apartment over a decade ago. Fast forward, after desi…