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Lessons from deep rest
January 5, 2023
I took two weeks off because it was the holidays, because I was really tremendously tired, because I did 70% of my business’s annual sales in the final three...
Define an area as “safe” and use it as an anchor
December 22, 2022
Growing up, my father had a little black box on his bookshelf that had OBLIQUE STRATEGIES in gold lettering on the side. Inside was a deck of around 100...
Rewriting the rules
December 20, 2022
In 2019, a couple of incidents happened in my local community that prompted me to devise a slapdash code of conduct with several friends. This would come to...
Take notes
December 16, 2022
I am absentminded and hang out with lots of different people, and I think through writing. So I do a thing that everybody thinks is weird & unusual, but...
Blue tote parrot
December 14, 2022
I’m sitting next to a blue canvas tote. I’m going to try and describe it now.
Chaos
December 12, 2022
In the absence of justice, in the absence of a team you’re rooting for, there is only chaos. There is the chaos of an underdog ruining everything, the chaos...
The primarying Eschaton
December 9, 2022
Okay. In 2005, which was still a very post-9/11 world, Congress passed an act that told all of the states to ask for more verification before issuing their...
You can have a little collectivism, as a treat
December 6, 2022
A couple of weeks before I started writing text, I was in Lisbon at a natural wine bar. I’d show up alone with my journal, find myself in the middle of...
More assorted questions I’ve had lately
December 2, 2022
Why can’t I figure out the battery capacity of my AirPods Pro? Batteries degrade over time, and for other Apple devices like your laptop or phone, you can...
No gods but moderation
November 30, 2022
A few years ago, I called something “crazy” in a Slack room and was very rapidly pinged, in private, by a moderator, that calling things crazy was ableist...
Thanks for clearing security. Here is your plant.
November 22, 2022
When you know O’Hare better than you know your own family, when you call flights segments, when you weave the B-to-C concourse tunnel like it’s the...
When does the next thing happen?
November 18, 2022
A few weeks ago, I wrote some text about the new dialectic, which tl;dr is a constellation of small, private, pseudonymous spaces. Since then, social media...
Dopp Gang
November 16, 2022
Dudes don’t usually need much to clean up: soap, comb, shaver, deodorant. For doing this on the road, and for all other sundries, there is the dopp kit,...
Ask a question in the Flame Free Zone
November 14, 2022
Screw it, we’re doing forums. Forums will never die. Everything else will die. Forums are the closest thing we have to immortality. Forum people will outlast...
Pruned bonsai
November 10, 2022
I used to throw parties that drew over 250 people. This was easy. You became known as a person who was good at craft beer, during a time when “craft beer”...
At least, like, ten or eleven questions about the direct-to-consumer bardo
November 8, 2022
It’s that time of year in Chicago when it’s cold enough that you don’t want to be outside any more than the bare minimum, so when you’re early to a place you...
Kintsugi (take two)
November 4, 2022
Sorry about the formatting of the previous email, folks. Resending, this time with line breaks.
Kintsugi
November 4, 2022
Kintsugi is an ancient Japanese technique of repairing old broken objects, especially porcelain & ceramic ones, with gold-dusted or gold-mixed lacquer. You...
Paw paws are both real and here
November 1, 2022
Paw paws are both real and here
What if it’s all scheduling?
October 28, 2022
Last weekend, I hung out with my family, and I did something I almost never do: I arrived late.
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