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Kati craft
April 10, 2024
We have talked a lot about craft as applies to clothes over the past year. There are people who work in small ways, forming direct relationships with their...
Air bag
April 8, 2024
I get on a fair number of airplanes, unfortunately, because the whole point of doing so is not the flying but the getting there. No sane person likes the act...
We bought a company and then nothing happened
April 4, 2024
Both of my main pens are made by Lamy, which until recently was family-run for three generations. Now it is owned by a giant conglomerate, and I am...
Right leaf, right time
April 2, 2024
Camellia sinensis is basically a small tree. Like every tree, it grows leaves in the spring. As those leaves mature, they get larger (duh) and hardier (also...
Perth text
March 29, 2024
They’re from Perth, but what else is even in Perth? You hear Perth and think of some sort of mirage. Unlike other Australian cities, Perth is never...
Flip, click, repeat
March 27, 2024
It tears through the problem space of ecommerce like it is a supplement company dressed as a hypebeast drop. It is neither. They sell fidget toys. Fidget...
Fun fact: a group of designers is called a “disagreement”
March 25, 2024
You’ve heard of the concept of a fun fact. Water swirls the other way in the southern hemisphere. A quarter pounder with cheese is called a “royale with...
Out front
March 21, 2024
I recently read a thing about Phoebe Philo, who built a minor cult following at two fashion houses in the aughts in rapid succession, retired, un-retired,...
Text text
March 20, 2024
Sometimes I forget that I do things that track, on face, to be completely unhinged. Like the bookmarks file.
Find 12, ditch 10, buy multiples of 2
March 18, 2024
This always happens. You get into this period of transformation and try a lot of stuff out. Some of it works. A lot of it doesn’t. You’re picky. You stick...
☎️
March 14, 2024
It all starts out innocently. You meet me at a party, or a dinner, or a yoga studio, or you’re posted up next to me at a café. We hit it off. You get my...
Cup as teacher, cup as intent
March 12, 2024
Text is supposed to be a durable canon of wonder, or so the page says. One of the things I’ve strenuously tried to follow is no dunks, because on the...
Earth’s only iPhone case
March 7, 2024
“What are you up to after this?” “Getting a new iPhone case.” “That’s a big moment!” “Is it?” “Yes! You hold that thing every single day, and most people you...
Build a wall of shaving cream that blots out the sun
March 6, 2024
One phrase that now lives in my head rent-free is “state of shopping,” courtesy of Blackbird Spyplane, our nation’s paper of record. They write mostly about...
Soup & Dread
February 29, 2024
I’m doing Soup & Bread next week. Soup & Bread is a monthly winter-to-spring thing at legendary (and sometimes deeply flawed) cultural institution the...
No gods but sourcing
February 27, 2024
Enough of you liked Zingerman’s text that I will continue to write about them. There is, as mentioned, a lot of ground to cover, including some stuff I omitted.
An object for the whiskey man
February 22, 2024
The dim realization of its price unfolds in slow motion, as if you wonder: is that a currency conversion thing? You recall, once, how in Mexico City you went...
The one thing you need
February 19, 2024
In my own spiritual journey, I have come to believe very few things as true axioms of existence. Most of them are very boring, obvious, Buddhist-of-center...
Detroit/Kingsley
February 16, 2024
Zingerman’s is a Jewish deli in Ann Arbor that is 45 days younger than me, but to call Zingerman’s a “Jewish deli” is like calling the Louvre an “art...
What does it mean for a system to be nourishing?
February 9, 2024
I’m halfway through Christopher Alexander’s brief essay about architecture The Nature of Order, and many ideas have been coming through as I’ve read it. In...
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