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Soup & Dread
February 29, 2024
I’m doing Soup & Bread next week. Soup & Bread is a monthly winter-to-spring thing at legendary (and sometimes deeply flawed) cultural institution the...
No gods but sourcing
February 27, 2024
Enough of you liked Zingerman’s text that I will continue to write about them. There is, as mentioned, a lot of ground to cover, including some stuff I omitted.
An object for the whiskey man
February 22, 2024
The dim realization of its price unfolds in slow motion, as if you wonder: is that a currency conversion thing? You recall, once, how in Mexico City you went...
The one thing you need
February 19, 2024
In my own spiritual journey, I have come to believe very few things as true axioms of existence. Most of them are very boring, obvious, Buddhist-of-center...
Detroit/Kingsley
February 16, 2024
Zingerman’s is a Jewish deli in Ann Arbor that is 45 days younger than me, but to call Zingerman’s a “Jewish deli” is like calling the Louvre an “art...
What does it mean for a system to be nourishing?
February 9, 2024
I’m halfway through Christopher Alexander’s brief essay about architecture The Nature of Order, and many ideas have been coming through as I’ve read it. In...
I spent my birthday in the normal fashion
February 7, 2024
You can’t go to most onsen in Japan if you have tattoos, and I have a lot of those, so the one time I wanted anything approaching an onsen experience I found...
Me season
February 1, 2024
Today is my birthday, which thank you, that’s very kind, please sit down, we have a lot to get through today, oh my god, please. Please. Okay. I need to tell...
J1B-GT, one month
January 30, 2024
I have written text already on the jacket, but I did not own one, which made the whole affair look a little like one watched a beautiful conversation in a...
Pitched fork
January 29, 2024
They weren’t relevant until they were. They were controversial until they weren’t. They were savage until they became anodyne. They were underground until...
Notes on matched sets
January 25, 2024
You never see anyone wearing both at once, do you? And yet there they are, shirt & pants, cut from the same fabric. Theoretically this is what a suit is, but...
Three things at Draft
January 23, 2024
I’m posting this here because the main mailing list would get too loud & incoherent, too full of yes people, and my intuition would get drowned out, which we...
Another text grab bag
January 16, 2024
You will never know if your USB-C connection “works,” by any definition of works. You will never know if it is transferring the maximum amount of data, or...
Bison chili: the latest iteration
January 10, 2024
So we’ve already established that I am lousy at recipes? I basically kitchen-witch the whole thing. The only two good things that I’ve ever done are bison...
Armor, natural enough
January 8, 2024
Welcome back to text, the world’s only remaining newsletter. I hope whatever permutation of holidays you observe went well, and I’m excited to have you here...
Accretion
December 21, 2023
In keeping with holiday tradition, here is 2023’s power ranking of Oblique Strategies cards, as a predecessor to two weeks of deep rest. I am deliberately...
Drip slowdown
December 19, 2023
At the world’s greatest coffee shop last year, I noticed the barista was using a different brand of filter than the bog-standard Hario V60 ones. I asked, and...
When Shohei Ohtani stares into the sun, the sun blinks
December 15, 2023
People are asking about him. Really? That much? Yes, that much. Why? Here is some form of why, although nothing makes sense anymore.
Why I don’t show unfinished work
December 13, 2023
When I first started out in design, I made a few agreements to myself. One of them is that I’ll never show unfinished work if it’s not presented...
On resonance
December 7, 2023
A decade or so ago, I was friends with someone who liked to knit a lot. She was never without some project in her lap, moving at mach speed. Then she got her...
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