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Unfortunately, the cake isn't made out of bear
September 6, 2024
Well, it only took 190 years, but someone finally decided to make a cultural artifact about the city of Chicago. There’s a TV show called The Bear, and I...
National union
September 4, 2024
Like any creative person, I sometimes sit down to a blank window and wonder what to write here. And then, like a bolt of lightning: Illinois has decided to...
What to do when your flight is eternally delayed
August 29, 2024
You know the rain will pass because you have a radar app, but it’s going to take five and a half hours, so your flight is delayed by five and a half hours,...
Front pocket
August 27, 2024
You wear it on the front, see, under your jacket, like you’re a paranoiac kangaroo. It is as oddly shaped as your body is, and it is thin, so you can really...
Go Somebodies
August 23, 2024
Literally tens of thousands of people have been clamoring for a baseball update, and like look, I don’t know what to tell you, my team is bad and they’re...
Doing tech (framework, questions)
August 21, 2024
I think often of the practice of doing tech. What are the norms? What is allowed? What is venerated? What is looked down upon? What are we conscious to? What...
CAP0.5, two days
August 19, 2024
Like its two siblings, CAP0.5 is distinctive, retaining character in name only. Like the best families, each one has a personality, an approach, and only...
Office hours
August 15, 2024
“Come by whenever,” you say. “We’ll be around 10a–3p.” The semiotics of open hours. You don’t need-need to be there at any given time, but eventually a more...
RAW is whatever you want to make it. Tell your own story, why not
August 13, 2024
JPEG is a rendered photograph and RAW is camera data. You’re never actually looking at a RAW file, but rather some software’s interpretation of a RAW file....
côte&ciel Isar, 2 years
August 9, 2024
What is the geometry of carry? Usually a grid. Objects are knolled, thrown in cubes, then thrown next to other cubes inside of larger cubes. The objects...
The supercut (handball, speed climbing, etc)
August 7, 2024
Go to NBC Sports’s YouTube channel. Filter by the past two weeks. Sort by popularity. Skip any sports that are remotely popular. Skip any sports that are...
Backpack text, again
Premium post · August 5, 2024
I went to the best coffee shop in Chicago recently and plunked down next to a guy who had a backpack that I had never seen before. This is an event, y’all. I...
🍅
August 1, 2024
It starts slowly and then all at once and now you have 43 pounds of tomatoes. Five days ago, you had nothing. You forgot you planted tomatoes, and now you...
Ten years of lunch
July 30, 2024
In July of 2014, I went to a retreat in Seattle with a few other designers. On my way to the airport, I stopped in a bookstore, but it was closed, because...
Five check-ins
July 26, 2024
J1B-GT, 9 months Is it possible to fall in love with a jacket? One for therapy next week, I suppose. I was nervous for a long time about getting a J1B, and I...
Calendarin'
July 24, 2024
I met a new friend. This happens. We hang out, it’s fun. One day, after a few months, I have them over, we have a great time, and I ask when we can hang...
Some stuff
July 22, 2024
Sometimes you do a bunch of research and find out that the best fountain pen costs $200, and everything else beyond that price point is just for ego & status...
Optimus Prime Day
July 18, 2024
The first thing to keep in mind is that every time I hear the words Prime Day, my completely normal brain automatically grafts Optimus onto them. I was never...
How to sauce
July 12, 2024
I don’t even think we’ve talked about this, and I just made sauce three times in a week, so. You should never buy pasta sauce from a jar, you respect...
Do it for him
July 10, 2024
You once threw a big party every year in the middle of July which, due to circumstances, began at 10:30p, ended at 4a, and involved several hundred bottles...
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