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Go Somebodies
August 23, 2024
Literally tens of thousands of people have been clamoring for a baseball update, and like look, I don’t know what to tell you, my team is bad and they’re...
Doing tech (framework, questions)
August 21, 2024
I think often of the practice of doing tech. What are the norms? What is allowed? What is venerated? What is looked down upon? What are we conscious to? What...
CAP0.5, two days
August 19, 2024
Like its two siblings, CAP0.5 is distinctive, retaining character in name only. Like the best families, each one has a personality, an approach, and only...
Office hours
August 15, 2024
“Come by whenever,” you say. “We’ll be around 10a–3p.” The semiotics of open hours. You don’t need-need to be there at any given time, but eventually a more...
RAW is whatever you want to make it. Tell your own story, why not
August 13, 2024
JPEG is a rendered photograph and RAW is camera data. You’re never actually looking at a RAW file, but rather some software’s interpretation of a RAW file....
côte&ciel Isar, 2 years
August 9, 2024
What is the geometry of carry? Usually a grid. Objects are knolled, thrown in cubes, then thrown next to other cubes inside of larger cubes. The objects...
The supercut (handball, speed climbing, etc)
August 7, 2024
Go to NBC Sports’s YouTube channel. Filter by the past two weeks. Sort by popularity. Skip any sports that are remotely popular. Skip any sports that are...
Backpack text, again
Premium post · August 5, 2024
I went to the best coffee shop in Chicago recently and plunked down next to a guy who had a backpack that I had never seen before. This is an event, y’all. I...
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August 1, 2024
It starts slowly and then all at once and now you have 43 pounds of tomatoes. Five days ago, you had nothing. You forgot you planted tomatoes, and now you...
Ten years of lunch
July 30, 2024
In July of 2014, I went to a retreat in Seattle with a few other designers. On my way to the airport, I stopped in a bookstore, but it was closed, because...
Five check-ins
July 26, 2024
J1B-GT, 9 months Is it possible to fall in love with a jacket? One for therapy next week, I suppose. I was nervous for a long time about getting a J1B, and I...
Calendarin'
July 24, 2024
I met a new friend. This happens. We hang out, it’s fun. One day, after a few months, I have them over, we have a great time, and I ask when we can hang...
Some stuff
July 22, 2024
Sometimes you do a bunch of research and find out that the best fountain pen costs $200, and everything else beyond that price point is just for ego & status...
Optimus Prime Day
July 18, 2024
The first thing to keep in mind is that every time I hear the words Prime Day, my completely normal brain automatically grafts Optimus onto them. I was never...
How to sauce
July 12, 2024
I don’t even think we’ve talked about this, and I just made sauce three times in a week, so. You should never buy pasta sauce from a jar, you respect...
Do it for him
July 10, 2024
You once threw a big party every year in the middle of July which, due to circumstances, began at 10:30p, ended at 4a, and involved several hundred bottles...
Solve the thing once
July 8, 2024
Get into carry for long enough and you end up down a very pointy rabbit hole. Knife carry is wild, y’all. Knives have been optimized with an inch of their...
Akahoshi, five times
July 2, 2024
It begins, for our intents, with the book and its corresponding Reddit thread. There is a guy, and he decided to beastmode ramen to such a degree that, well,...
New position
June 28, 2024
On Tuesday, we’ll be launching our first open consulting slot for the first time in two years. I am mildly terrified about it! I am more-than-mildly dreading...
The picnic pro, again
June 26, 2024
After eight days of 104º weather, it finally drops to 78º and you are, like a normal person, invited to 41 picnics at once. Also like a normal person, you...
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