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Pete goes golfing
June 2, 2025
The first thing you need to know about Pete Crow-Armstrong is that he is fast. He is so fast, in fact, that there were whispers as he came up in the minor...
nickd doesn't buy a pen
May 29, 2025
The first thing to remember about buying a pen is that I do not, in fact, need a pen. There are plenty of pens. I have Kaweco AL-Sport rollerballs strewn...
Koffee/SD1
May 22, 2025
Most coffee shops go the same way: you walk in, grab something, maybe sit down, leave. Mameya Koffee is not that place. It is a single room with a counter...
The conference really was very good in spite of the rotting seaweed
May 20, 2025
I’m primarily a city traveler. Everyone knows this. 95% of my most successful writing is about some cool thing I found in a city. Yes, there are national...
Hang zones
May 9, 2025
As a humble reminder, we’re out at a conference this week. We’ll be back the week of May 19. Loaf Lounge is the sort of place where there should be more of...
Pick a meetup
May 6, 2025
As a humble reminder, we’re out at a conference this week. We’ll be back the week of May 19. Since we obviously aren’t buying anything anymore, we are now a...
Someday, they will make a cable that defeats all other cables, and it will cost $1.40
May 2, 2025
When you switched all of your devices, correctly, to USB-C, you were not prepared for the cabling situation. A cable is not just a cable in this world. Some...
Get better when things get worse
April 30, 2025
Nassim Nicholas Taleb coined the term antifragile a while back to describe something that thrives in a broader state of disorder; while other things...
Be out there
April 28, 2025
One of the perils of going to fancy college is that you are told, your whole life, that you are great, that you are destined to do great things, and then you...
Klein x Carhartt WIP
April 24, 2025
There is a genre of handyperson called Chicago Guy: usually eastern European, usually a guy, not very talkative, gets the job done, always overbooked. As you...
Four short reads
April 22, 2025
You’re busy making stock, so here are some reads while it simmers. I haven’t read much in the past month that’s really hit for me, probably because we’re all...
Get bones, roast them
April 18, 2025
Okay, yes, there’s a whole chemical thing that happens when you roast the bones before throwing them into your stock pot. Start at 425º, 30m, check after...
Stock text
April 16, 2025
Somehow, we have not discussed stock. Probably it’s too simple to write up in text. But also nobody seems to do it, and I’m going to teach stock to my...
Happy Black Friday
April 14, 2025
We will continue to discuss the ongoing apocalypse, and then we’ll get back to brighter text, promise. One of my close people took one look at the sales...
Make it work
April 10, 2025
After a few months of retrenchment & deep stillness, I began a new offering for my close people this past week that centers around dialogue, which is not...
Adapting
April 8, 2025
I was chatting with my therapist recently about the ongoing apocalypse, and what all I’ve done in response to it. This has not been much, strictly speaking,...
Fits as process
April 4, 2025
Blackbird Spyplane once coined the term state of shopping to refer to someone who is more obsessed with browsing & buying than actually living in the things...
Sometimes you regret grinding in the first place
April 2, 2025
In some earlier text, I told you about co-fermented coffee. The short description is this: one way to remove the coffee cherries to get to the beans is by...
Formal but not
March 31, 2025
Everyone needs a suit because weddings, funerals, New Year’s Eve, and jury duty exist. Usually you get something charcoal or blue, leave it in your closet...
You cannot hide the crackers. They will find the crackers.
March 27, 2025
“Oh, hey, deer,” you say, casually, noting two deer. Less than a second later, you look to your left and see a deer standing in the middle of a four-lane...
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