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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...

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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...

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🍅

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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Solve the thing once

July 8, 2024

Get into carry for long enough and you end up down a very pointy rabbit hole. Knife carry is wild, y’all. Knives have been optimized with an inch of their...

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Akahoshi, five times

July 2, 2024

It begins, for our intents, with the book and its corresponding Reddit thread. There is a guy, and he decided to beastmode ramen to such a degree that, well,...

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New position

June 28, 2024

On Tuesday, we’ll be launching our first open consulting slot for the first time in two years. I am mildly terrified about it! I am more-than-mildly dreading...

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The picnic pro, again

June 26, 2024

After eight days of 104º weather, it finally drops to 78º and you are, like a normal person, invited to 41 picnics at once. Also like a normal person, you...

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Get the better one

June 24, 2024

Look, I know they look the same. I’m trained to find the differences. One has two ribbons; the other has only one. One comes with more sheets. The paper...

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Monte Carlo (for Justin)

June 20, 2024

We haven’t talked about cocktails much lately, which is for a reason, but there is now something to discuss in the middle of the blazing summer, peak...

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🥬

June 18, 2024

Lettuce is at peak right now. We must discuss it. If you don’t have lettuce in your crisper in June, you’re missing out on one of the most important...

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Q2, three years

June 14, 2024

It arrived the day before my second shot, the shot that let you out in the world, sort of. It felt less like a midlife crisis than a rebirth, although let’s...

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Space iPad, 1 month

June 12, 2024

The thing is dressed up as a laptop for a permanent halloween of the computing spirit. There is a trackpad, clicky keys. The keyboard even lights up. There...

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Scattered gathering rules

June 10, 2024

A few scattered rules for gathering that nobody seems to tell you about. Groups favor circles Layout-wise, people like to sit in a circle. Trying to hem...

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