A Short Book About Hats
On Empathy, Collaboration, and the Odd Joy of Making Digital Things Together
An essay on hats as a way of thinking about perspective, empathy, and the practical realities of making digital things together.
View bookAbout Press
About Press is a small publishing house focused on short, carefully written books about design, work, and judgement.
Each book takes a familiar object, habit, or idea and uses it as a way in to the realities of modern practice - uncertainty, trade-offs, collaboration, and change over time.
These are not instructional manuals, nor do they propose universal frameworks. They are essays: compact, reflective, and designed to be revisited as work and context shift.
About the series
A Short Book About… is an ongoing series built around a simple constraint: using ordinary things to think clearly about complex work.
- One familiar subject per book
- Short enough to read in an evening
- Written to be read slowly, out of order, and revisited
- Focused on judgement and practice rather than rules or frameworks
- Each title stands alone, while quietly connecting to the others
Books
A Short Book About Tea
On Complexity, Loops, Layers, and the Lovely Chaos Behind Simple Things
Tea as a way of thinking about complexity, systems, and the quiet loops that shape everyday work.
View bookHow the books are made
About Press books are intentionally small in scale.
They are designed to be held comfortably, read without effort, and kept rather than discarded. Care is taken with writing, editing, typography, and production - not to impress, but to last.