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This is Pocket Observation, a not-for-profit curriculum designed to help you reclaim your attention.

Hi, I'm Meg.
I create Pocket Observatory.

Drawing on years of research and reporting, I've developed a pocket-size framework to help you reclaim your attention, preserve information and share knowledge. 

This framework includes pocket practices like a daily newsletter, a dynamic archive and a monthly curriculum, Pocket Observation.

Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. Mary Oliver

Pocket Practices

As we keep and share meaning, we create relationships that extend reality beyond limited men’s limited horizons. What will that reality hold? I can’t be sure. But I think the answer includes an epigram found in the margins of Octavia E. Butler’s archive, "There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns."

Pocket Notes: A Daily Newsletter

First I pay attention And then I tell you about it. 

Each evening, I share contextualized observations about culture, care work, politics, community, history and the economy. This daily newsletter offers subscribers a simple model for cultivating shared understanding.
Thank you!
Thank you!

Pocket Observation: An attention reclamation curriculum

Pocket Observation helps us develop a practice of observance. I create one half of Pocket Observation. The other half is created by you. 

Pocket Observation is available in online and offline formats. 

  • Each volume will be uploaded to this online space. These digital Pocket Observations include audio notes, video, art downloads, recommended resources and the option to attend monthly community meetings.


  • You can download each volume of Pocket Observation and print it out at home. Each Pocket Observation is uploaded to the Internet Archive, ensuring long-term preservation and public access. This dispersed model protects each Pocket Observation from digital decay. As you interact with Pocket Observation, it will be transformed into a piece of your personal archive. Add blank pages, write in the margins, tape in ephemera, sketch impressions.

Pocket Constellation: A dynamic archive devoted to the human experience

This archive contains cultural objects that interact with each other and the observer. Pocket Constellation is organized with tags that decay over time. This structure makes unexpected connections visible while also illuminating how categorization shapes our perspective.

Plus it's full of lots of cool stuff that I'll know you'll like!

Objects include articles, etymology, literature, ephemera, organization profiles, historical figures, newspaper clippings, audio, video, and high-resolution art files available for your downloading pleasure!

Coming soon!

Testimonials

If you’ve ever wished you could have been a part of Tolkien’s Inklings or swirl a drink by the fire with Emerson and Alcott, Meg’s writing is pretty damn close.
Camille Andros, Author
It’s incredible how Meg can always be funny, incisive, and eloquent, all at once. Actually, it’s maddening that she’s this good.
Benjamin Park, Historian and Author
Meg Conley is doing some of the smartest and most challenging writing on the intersection of women, home, money, and care. She is an exquisite writer, constantly surprising me with the turns and clarity of her prose.
Anne Helen Petersen, Culture Study
A masterwork on modern capitalism, care work, and sexism, honestly.
Lane Anderson, Matriarchy Report
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