Lena Ortiz https://lena.molby.app/ I write and talk about attention, cities and the quieter parts of the internet. en-gb Rooms, not feedshttps://lena.molby.app/essays/rooms-not-feedshttps://lena.molby.app/essays/rooms-not-feedsSun, 18 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTWhy I finally gave ten years of writing one address — and what I noticed moving in. The sound of a roomhttps://lena.molby.app/podcast/the-sound-of-a-roomhttps://lena.molby.app/podcast/the-sound-of-a-roomThu, 15 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTEvery room has a voice before anyone speaks in it. Acoustician Inês Carvalho on churches that hum, cafés designed to feel busy, and why the quietest room she ever measured made people anxious. Inbox zero was never the pointhttps://lena.molby.app/podcast/inbox-zero-was-never-the-pointhttps://lena.molby.app/podcast/inbox-zero-was-never-the-pointThu, 01 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTA solo episode about email, unanswered letters and the difference between being reachable and being available. With three small rules I actually keep. What the 28 tram knows about patiencehttps://lena.molby.app/essays/what-the-tram-knowshttps://lena.molby.app/essays/what-the-tram-knowsSun, 20 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTForty minutes, four kilometres, and the slowest lesson Lisbon has taught me. Walking as a writing toolhttps://lena.molby.app/podcast/walking-as-a-writing-toolhttps://lena.molby.app/podcast/walking-as-a-writing-toolThu, 17 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTNovelist Tomás Reyes walks eleven kilometres every morning and writes for ninety minutes after. We talk about gait and sentences, getting lost on purpose, and the notebook he keeps in his sock. Small websites, big liveshttps://lena.molby.app/podcast/small-websites-big-liveshttps://lena.molby.app/podcast/small-websites-big-livesThu, 03 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTPriya Natarajan has designed personal sites for poets, bakers and one retired lighthouse keeper. Why a home on the web still matters, and what makes a small site feel like a person. Listening at half speedhttps://lena.molby.app/essays/listening-at-half-speedhttps://lena.molby.app/essays/listening-at-half-speedSun, 23 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMTEveryone I know listens to podcasts at double speed. I tried the opposite for a month. What radio taught mehttps://lena.molby.app/podcast/what-radio-taught-mehttps://lena.molby.app/podcast/what-radio-taught-meThu, 20 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMTBefore podcasts I spent four years at a community radio station in Hackney. A solo episode about live mistakes, the 3 a.m. listener, and why I still talk to one person, not an audience. Fado and the art of the pausehttps://lena.molby.app/podcast/fado-and-the-art-of-the-pausehttps://lena.molby.app/podcast/fado-and-the-art-of-the-pauseThu, 06 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMTFadista Marta Lobo on singing in a room of forty people, the silence the audience owes the singer, and why the most important note in a fado is the one she doesn't sing. Ten years, four platforms, one mehttps://lena.molby.app/essays/ten-years-four-platformshttps://lena.molby.app/essays/ten-years-four-platformsSun, 26 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMTAn inventory of a decade of writing in public, and why I stopped renting. Reading on paper againhttps://lena.molby.app/podcast/reading-on-paper-againhttps://lena.molby.app/podcast/reading-on-paper-againThu, 23 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMTJonah Feld runs a secondhand bookshop in Porto and has watched a generation come back to paper. What changes when a book cannot notify you. The patience of mapshttps://lena.molby.app/podcast/the-patience-of-mapshttps://lena.molby.app/podcast/the-patience-of-mapsThu, 09 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMTAiko Tanabe draws maps by hand. We talk about what a map leaves out, walking a city to draw it, and the year she spent mapping one street in Kyoto. The second draft is a walkhttps://lena.molby.app/essays/the-second-draft-is-a-walkhttps://lena.molby.app/essays/the-second-draft-is-a-walkSun, 14 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMTI write first drafts at the table and second drafts with my feet. Notes from a waiting roomhttps://lena.molby.app/essays/notes-from-a-waiting-roomhttps://lena.molby.app/essays/notes-from-a-waiting-roomSun, 03 May 2026 08:00:00 GMTTwo hours at the immigration office, no phone signal, and a small defence of boredom. A city that sounds like itselfhttps://lena.molby.app/essays/a-city-that-sounds-like-itselfhttps://lena.molby.app/essays/a-city-that-sounds-like-itselfSun, 22 Mar 2026 08:00:00 GMTLisbon has a sound you can recognise with your eyes closed. Here is how I learned to hear it. Saudade is not nostalgiahttps://lena.molby.app/essays/saudade-is-not-nostalgiahttps://lena.molby.app/essays/saudade-is-not-nostalgiaSun, 25 Jan 2026 08:00:00 GMTA word my neighbours use every day, and the English I keep failing to find for it. Against the infinite scrollhttps://lena.molby.app/essays/against-the-infinite-scrollhttps://lena.molby.app/essays/against-the-infinite-scrollSun, 05 Nov 2023 08:00:00 GMTA page should end. When it does, you get to decide what happens next. Why I moved to Lisbon with one suitcasehttps://lena.molby.app/essays/one-suitcasehttps://lena.molby.app/essays/one-suitcaseSun, 11 Apr 2021 08:00:00 GMTFive years ago I left London with what fit in the overhead bin. Learning to write shorthttps://lena.molby.app/essays/learning-to-write-shorthttps://lena.molby.app/essays/learning-to-write-shortSun, 17 Feb 2019 08:00:00 GMTMy first editor cut my best paragraph. She was right, and it took me two years to admit it. The first letterhttps://lena.molby.app/essays/the-first-letterhttps://lena.molby.app/essays/the-first-letterSun, 04 Sep 2016 08:00:00 GMTIssue one of Low Tide, unedited, from September 2016.