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On taste
July 3, 2025
Continuing on the banger-reads tip, this universally correct piece on taste hit for me over the weekend. I’m currently writing a new offering that is...
A few reads
July 1, 2025
Been a while since I’ve cited other reads, so: Kyla Scanlon has been on a roll lately. Her recent piece on dialectical collapse and the ascendancy of fascism...
The same, with less but more
June 26, 2025
The chorus is nigh-universal: don’t buy this if you don’t already have a color rig. The idea of a color rig is in itself laughable, because hasn’t every...
How to remove
June 24, 2025
As we’ve written a few times here, I don’t buy much. What we don’t talk about is how I am also slow to get rid of things. This is partly the result of not...
Malibu Stacy has a new user interface
June 20, 2025
There’s an argument to be said in favor of it, which is: Apple has five operating systems, and they should look somewhat the same. Currently, bar fonts, they...
How to pick a serviceberry bush
June 18, 2025
The last time we discussed the berries, Robin Wall Kimmerer had published her phenomenal essay, but not the book-length expansion that became an instant...
One
June 10, 2025
I’ve been under the weather this past week, so I’ve naturally gone and researched one-person operations. One person sits in a room, makes stuff, sells it...
Winter storm
June 6, 2025
Thanks to Tsutaya, my book stack is very tall right now. Thanks to one guy who is rapidly improving my thinking on independent consulting, I am moving...
Three buildings, one bookstore
June 5, 2025
Go to Shibuya, take the local Tōyoko line one stop, and you’ll find yourself in Daikanyama, which is a neighborhood with so much retail that it feels like an...
Pete goes golfing
June 2, 2025
The first thing you need to know about Pete Crow-Armstrong is that he is fast. He is so fast, in fact, that there were whispers as he came up in the minor...
nickd doesn't buy a pen
May 29, 2025
The first thing to remember about buying a pen is that I do not, in fact, need a pen. There are plenty of pens. I have Kaweco AL-Sport rollerballs strewn...
Koffee/SD1
May 22, 2025
Most coffee shops go the same way: you walk in, grab something, maybe sit down, leave. Mameya Koffee is not that place. It is a single room with a counter...
The conference really was very good in spite of the rotting seaweed
May 20, 2025
I’m primarily a city traveler. Everyone knows this. 95% of my most successful writing is about some cool thing I found in a city. Yes, there are national...
Hang zones
May 9, 2025
As a humble reminder, we’re out at a conference this week. We’ll be back the week of May 19. Loaf Lounge is the sort of place where there should be more of...
Pick a meetup
May 6, 2025
As a humble reminder, we’re out at a conference this week. We’ll be back the week of May 19. Since we obviously aren’t buying anything anymore, we are now a...
Someday, they will make a cable that defeats all other cables, and it will cost $1.40
May 2, 2025
When you switched all of your devices, correctly, to USB-C, you were not prepared for the cabling situation. A cable is not just a cable in this world. Some...
Get better when things get worse
April 30, 2025
Nassim Nicholas Taleb coined the term antifragile a while back to describe something that thrives in a broader state of disorder; while other things...
Be out there
April 28, 2025
One of the perils of going to fancy college is that you are told, your whole life, that you are great, that you are destined to do great things, and then you...
Klein x Carhartt WIP
April 24, 2025
There is a genre of handyperson called Chicago Guy: usually eastern European, usually a guy, not very talkative, gets the job done, always overbooked. As you...
Four short reads
April 22, 2025
You’re busy making stock, so here are some reads while it simmers. I haven’t read much in the past month that’s really hit for me, probably because we’re all...
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