Hello, I’m Lena.

I write and talk about attention, cities and the quieter parts of the internet.

I grew up in London, spent four years on community radio in Hackney, and moved to Lisbon in 2016 with one suitcase. That autumn I started Low Tide, a letter every other Sunday, for eleven readers. It now goes to 6,400.

In 2020 I started Slow Signals, unhurried conversations with acousticians, novelists, booksellers and fado singers about attention and sound. I give a few talks a year, and I’m writing my first book.

For ten years all of this lived in four different places. This site is where it all lives now — every letter, episode, talk and thread worth keeping, on one address, under my own name.

Elsewhere

• Low Tide — a letter every other Sunday. Subscribe
• Slow Signals — in every podcast app. Episodes
• Talks and events — past talks, or write to hello@lena.molby.app

Colophon

Set in Newsreader, Geist and Geist Mono. Drawings in ink, mostly at the kitchen table. Built with Molby. Every page has a clean address, loads in a fraction of a second, and says plainly who wrote it and when — so people, and search engines, can find it.