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How to own your data
September 5, 2023
The internet was once pitched as an archive, a total codex of human knowledge. But in reality, nothing is really trustworthy on the internet. The whole thing...
Find the hits with this one cool trick
August 30, 2023
I’ve talked a lot on the professional side about Aesop, the skincare brand that makes you smell like a hotel while feeling like a design-forward cool girl,...
Roomba #5
August 24, 2023
It was a sunny, beautiful day, and I made brunch for 12 people, like I do, and they rewarded me with an intervention. You know I got a dog in April. The dog...
You can never pack a Porter again
August 22, 2023
In one sense, the form creates a framework. In another, the framework mutates and composts. Enter Yoshida Porter, a bag company that you have maybe never...
Don't talk about whether the bathrooms are clean
August 17, 2023
It’s August, which means I have thrown 487 picnics this summer. You know, enough to have this down to a science. It is time for picnic pro text. Look, one...
Paragons of carry normalcy
August 15, 2023
Look at this. Stare, like it is wreckage. They are abominations, yet not. They are luxury, yet not. They are the product, maybe, of an AI prompt to graft...
The base of pretty much everything
August 11, 2023
I had a friend over for dinner the other week. He worked as a cook for a decade; his father is a regionally famous chef. He knows food, and cooks all the...
Too much light, too little time
August 9, 2023
There’s a certain genre of internet that gives generously, provides clear outcomes, and doesn’t really ask for more, but more is there, and you can pay for...
Send only text, forever
August 7, 2023
In our previous text, I talked about how I have mostly disengaged from the merest concept of technology, an idea that is both universally correct and...
Live, log off, love
August 2, 2023
The internet is slowly failing for me, personally, and I kind of love it. This began on several fronts at once, it seemed. A major newspaper changed some...
The treatment of one pepper
July 31, 2023
It’s that time in Chicago where every farmers market vendor has shishito peppers, and you have no idea what to do with them. I have spent five years...
Potatoes weren’t expecting this to happen to them
July 27, 2023
On the one extreme, you have the farmers market. The produce is abundant and unprepared. You are handed a zucchini; you have absolutely no idea what to do...
1,000 strawberries in the shape of a strawberry
July 25, 2023
Strawberries are in season and everybody is just going about their business as if nothing happened. They look the same but are not. Each looks different but...
The quadrapartite ratio
July 19, 2023
The ratio changes, the ratio always stays the same. Dashi, soy sauce, mirin, and sake. You can read this and get the gist, but you’re also reading text, so...
Go do stuff you like
July 13, 2023
So you have this glowy rectangle in your pocket, and you can do pretty much anything with it. Anything! Anything. You ask the rectangle for one job: you want...
How to promote a party
July 11, 2023
First, you announce that you are throwing a party, and then two months later you throw a party. That’s the skeleton. Now you have to fill in the skeleton....
Every instance of repair I have done on clothes in the past two years, in no order
July 7, 2023
The suit
A knolled clown car for your brain
July 5, 2023
The whole goal of good carry is to fit as much as possible in as small of space while taking up as little bulk and weight as possible. There are many...
Smoke journey
June 29, 2023
Some tea you can steep a few times before it becomes something you don’t want to put in your face. Some you can’t. Don’t steep malty assam multiple times....
No bean rules
June 27, 2023
Sometimes you remember that you have an amazing ingredient that you have not used in a while, and you avail it upon yourself to attempt something with it....
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