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What goes up

September 28, 2022

The trajectory of brands is hard to reckon with. Nothing stays fixed. Goods that have been around for 500 years are now being munged through the fustigations...

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The great deferral, or: I am spoiled

September 26, 2022

I’ve been to Japan three times.

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Talking to people

September 23, 2022

One of the things interviewing teaches you is that everyone is secretly interesting. Boring-seeming people have weird hobbies. You catch a centimeter of a...

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Natty

September 21, 2022

A few months ago, I wrote some text about natural processed coffee. In short, coffee is a tropical fruit. You’re drinking some ground-up, roasted seeds that...

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No scotch & iPhone

September 19, 2022

I bought an iPhone and feel nothing. I bought an iPhone and don’t know why I did. It had been 3 years? I first wrote about the iPhone when I bought a 3G,...

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Have everything

September 16, 2022

When I started shifting from contractor design work to consulting, one of the key things I kept reading, in book after book, was the idea of an abundance...

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Shitpost Jubilee

September 14, 2022

I have started & stopped Midjourney text 5 times now, because the contours of the stupid thing keep changing. There is Midjourney, yes, but they keep...

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City

September 12, 2022

City is a two-mile strip of land art in the middle of absolute nowhere in central Nevada, a state in the middle of absolute nowhere, that an artist named...

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The collection

September 9, 2022

One of my friend group chats was dunking on Funko Pops, a thing that I aggressively have no opinion on, when we got to discussing the drain we circle so...

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The walls of the room

September 7, 2022

First, I wanted to say thanks to everyone who wrote in about our latest text, and to everyone who subscribed in response to it. I never plan which text will...

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Blank

September 5, 2022

I’m writing this shortly after the end of my workday on August 31, 2022. 45 minutes ago, I deactivated a client’s Slack login and left their Trello board....

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Robotext

September 2, 2022

Of all the things that I do to account for my calm & permanent disengagement from the horrifying vagaries of social media, the one thing everyone is most...

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Not the sling text we need, the sling text we deserve

August 31, 2022

A sling is a carry object with 1 shoulder strap that exists somewhere between a wallet and a messenger bag. You can put it on a shoulder, carry it like a...

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Three uses for Malört

August 29, 2022

Malört is a digestif, derived from Swedish båska, that contains a lot of wormwood & emotional baggage. Its top notes are grapefruit rind and pine. It is...

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Bean bardo

August 26, 2022

I own an Instant Pot for one reason: beans. It is too large for the amount of beans any rational being makes at once, but that doesn’t stop me. You throw...

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A quiet soba abomination

August 24, 2022

You don’t really know soba, and neither does the rest of America, but we’ll make it work anyway. Soba is a buckwheat noodle that is usually made fresh in...

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You will now experience Starbucks text

August 22, 2022

There are few sacred spaces in the city, few areas that draw everybody, few spots that have literal oral histories written about them, but the corner of...

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Instrument

August 19, 2022

The rule is this: if I use it once a day, I need to optimize for pleasure, and there is effectively no maximum budget. This becomes complicated when...

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Notes on the practice

August 17, 2022

Upon request, someone asked me how I write. I write a lot, and like most writers I have a really specific and picky routine. Writers tend to work themselves...

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The banal wonder of Hasami

August 15, 2022

Hasami Porcelain is a Japanese brand that makes stackable mugs, plates, bowls, planters, and pourover drippers. You have absolutely seen it before. It speaks...

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