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May all jackets be visible from space henceforth
October 17, 2022
I haven’t owned a car since 2006, which I guess shocks people. The more shocking statistic is that I live in Chicago, a city where 40% of residents don’t own...
Two notebooks
October 13, 2022
Here, we have two notebooks that look materially the same. They are both black. Their covers are made of thin, rigid cardboard. They are both bound by some...
The gift of burned beans
October 11, 2022
The problem is that some roasters burn their beans. By “burn” I do not mean actually set on fire, but rather they roast the beans until the point where they...
The new dialectic
October 7, 2022
In the on-off saga of a bad person buying Twitter, a noted fascist mouthpiece, as of this writing it appears to be back on. If it actually happens, which it...
One to the next
October 5, 2022
In 2013, I launched Draft Revise as something a great deal smaller & more structured. I would run a few A/B tests for your SaaS business for $650 a month,...
A different feeling (Take 11)
October 3, 2022
To love the Avalanches is apparently to never see them live. It would be one thing if they were the sort of band that never toured, that barely left their...
What goes up
September 28, 2022
The trajectory of brands is hard to reckon with. Nothing stays fixed. Goods that have been around for 500 years are now being munged through the fustigations...
The great deferral, or: I am spoiled
September 26, 2022
I’ve been to Japan three times.
Talking to people
September 23, 2022
One of the things interviewing teaches you is that everyone is secretly interesting. Boring-seeming people have weird hobbies. You catch a centimeter of a...
Natty
September 21, 2022
A few months ago, I wrote some text about natural processed coffee. In short, coffee is a tropical fruit. You’re drinking some ground-up, roasted seeds that...
No scotch & iPhone
September 19, 2022
I bought an iPhone and feel nothing. I bought an iPhone and don’t know why I did. It had been 3 years? I first wrote about the iPhone when I bought a 3G,...
Have everything
September 16, 2022
When I started shifting from contractor design work to consulting, one of the key things I kept reading, in book after book, was the idea of an abundance...
Shitpost Jubilee
September 14, 2022
I have started & stopped Midjourney text 5 times now, because the contours of the stupid thing keep changing. There is Midjourney, yes, but they keep...
City
September 12, 2022
City is a two-mile strip of land art in the middle of absolute nowhere in central Nevada, a state in the middle of absolute nowhere, that an artist named...
The collection
September 9, 2022
One of my friend group chats was dunking on Funko Pops, a thing that I aggressively have no opinion on, when we got to discussing the drain we circle so...
The walls of the room
September 7, 2022
First, I wanted to say thanks to everyone who wrote in about our latest text, and to everyone who subscribed in response to it. I never plan which text will...
Blank
September 5, 2022
I’m writing this shortly after the end of my workday on August 31, 2022. 45 minutes ago, I deactivated a client’s Slack login and left their Trello board....
Robotext
September 2, 2022
Of all the things that I do to account for my calm & permanent disengagement from the horrifying vagaries of social media, the one thing everyone is most...
Not the sling text we need, the sling text we deserve
August 31, 2022
A sling is a carry object with 1 shoulder strap that exists somewhere between a wallet and a messenger bag. You can put it on a shoulder, carry it like a...
Three uses for Malört
August 29, 2022
Malört is a digestif, derived from Swedish båska, that contains a lot of wormwood & emotional baggage. Its top notes are grapefruit rind and pine. It is...
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