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Go do stuff you like

July 13, 2023

So you have this glowy rectangle in your pocket, and you can do pretty much anything with it. Anything! Anything. You ask the rectangle for one job: you want...

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How to promote a party

July 11, 2023

First, you announce that you are throwing a party, and then two months later you throw a party. That’s the skeleton. Now you have to fill in the skeleton....

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Every instance of repair I have done on clothes in the past two years, in no order

July 7, 2023

The suit

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A knolled clown car for your brain

July 5, 2023

The whole goal of good carry is to fit as much as possible in as small of space while taking up as little bulk and weight as possible. There are many...

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Smoke journey

June 29, 2023

Some tea you can steep a few times before it becomes something you don’t want to put in your face. Some you can’t. Don’t steep malty assam multiple times....

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No bean rules

June 27, 2023

Sometimes you remember that you have an amazing ingredient that you have not used in a while, and you avail it upon yourself to attempt something with it....

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Taming nature

June 19, 2023

> The same discipline, if not creativity, has helped make Budweiser the most popular beer in the world. Its sheer consistency, across tens of billions of...

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Late spring, three ways

June 15, 2023

There is so much I could talk about right now. Draft just reached its earliest ever break-even point on the year. I feel like I’m back at full strength in my...

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Laying siege to Dongletown

June 13, 2023

When I first bought a bad laptop in 2014, it had some USB-C ports and nothing else, and so I had to buy some dongles. I eventually spent $500 on dongles. I...

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Basil’s rule of innovation

June 7, 2023

New developments appear to have occurred in technology. Most people have viewed them with grim skepticism, saying that the new thing is gross, weird,...

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What is wonder now?

June 5, 2023

I’m writing this a couple of days before Apple’s big conference, and it should go out shortly after. This is deliberate. I want to be proven wrong here. I...

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What should you ignore in an airport?

June 2, 2023

Almost everything. Airports are malls for the liminal damned. There are exceptions, which is why this text is longer than two sentences. Food 95% of airport...

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Randy text

May 31, 2023

If you had to pick a favorite baseball play of the past 5 years, you could go the “storied dinger” route with the most important swing of the entire...

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Two contexts

May 29, 2023

Two years ago, I went on a bit of a failure of a first date. She was really cool, had a fascinating job, was lovely to talk to. But she was freshly out of a...

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Sound Princess

May 25, 2023

To know Japan is to crap there.‌ You are aware of smart toilets, yes, but you are perhaps not aware of their omnipresence there. Japan tracks sales of smart...

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Matched pair

May 19, 2023

I ran an errand last week and flew to Los Angeles to get a tattoo that is actually two tattoos. No, they don’t have any meaning, just vibes. Found the guy’s...

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Chockablock

May 17, 2023

Building Block makes sculptural forms that double as handbags. They are geometric, postmodern-architectural, prioritizing geometric formalism over any strict...

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Yelling at teapots

May 15, 2023

The more museums you go to, the more you get bored of big museums. This happens. The crowds are too much, the collection is too vast, you get fatigue within...

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Zine text

May 11, 2023

Next Saturday, May 20, I’ll be exhibiting at Chicago Zine Fest alongside my pal Rachel’s Bitza Press. This is probably a big deal. People have been waiting...

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First harvest

May 8, 2023

Every April it is ramps season, and every April there is ramps backlash. They are overhyped, one hears. Stop obsessing over them. Ramp dunk pieces always...

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