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Hope & not hope

Premium post · November 11, 2024

On November 09, 2016, I mauled enough dumplings to stun a yak and trundled my hollowed-out psyche two miles west to watch Nicolas Jaar tour one of the...

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Intermission text (almost over)

November 5, 2024

Intermission is going well. It’s been a month. I’m grateful for your patience. It won’t be much longer. I’m done many things with text, and you have seen...

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Finding ideas v. writing about them

Premium post · October 9, 2024

Contrary to popular opinion, I don’t always just sit down here and write stuff. I’m often hard up for ideas, staring at the blank page like anyone. In...

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America’s Team

October 7, 2024

Intermission began and so did October baseball. I’ll write about the former in a little bit, but for now you need to know about America’s Team. In 2015, the...

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They all said the concessions would be better, and they’re not wrong

Premium post · September 27, 2024

Well, well, well, look what we have here. A few weeks ago I summarized baseball for you, and one thing I stated is that the Chicago White Sox, shockingly a...

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The price isn’t the price

September 24, 2024

I was in Paris during Fashion Week – I know, I know – and the whole town, unshockingly, was popping. I poured myself out of an airplane into my Airbnb,...

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In person, not optional

Premium post · September 20, 2024

One of the darker moments in Draft’s history involved a prospective client who ran a fragrance brand, who kept talking about how challenging it was to smell...

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Snow Leopard intermission

September 16, 2024

15 years ago, noted computers company “Apple” released an operating system that they proudly touted as having no new features. Instead, they focused entirely...

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They’re writing about travel adapters, which is maybe cursed, but we kind of have to do it so let’s at least try to make it entertaining

September 12, 2024

Now that we have, as a society, moved on to USB-C, it is time to discuss travel adapters. Of course, the power adapter must be exclusively USB-C, because we...

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Say design without saying design

September 10, 2024

We wrote twice about the Kaweco, cursorily, and now it’s time to go deep into the text with it. Kaweco is a weird brand. It’s now owned by a big...

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Unfortunately, the cake isn't made out of bear

September 6, 2024

Well, it only took 190 years, but someone finally decided to make a cultural artifact about the city of Chicago. There’s a TV show called The Bear, and I...

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National union

September 4, 2024

Like any creative person, I sometimes sit down to a blank window and wonder what to write here. And then, like a bolt of lightning: Illinois has decided to...

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What to do when your flight is eternally delayed

August 29, 2024

You know the rain will pass because you have a radar app, but it’s going to take five and a half hours, so your flight is delayed by five and a half hours,...

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Front pocket

August 27, 2024

You wear it on the front, see, under your jacket, like you’re a paranoiac kangaroo. It is as oddly shaped as your body is, and it is thin, so you can really...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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