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A modest claim: after ten, a city owes its sleepers more than it owes its nightlife. I like restaurants. I like music. I also like a room that does not vibrate because a delivery s…
I am trying a rule of one book in the house and one book in the bag. The house book is a slow history of harbors. The bag book is a slim novel I can finish on a train. Curious what…
I will start: room-temperature tomatoes are a different fruit from the cold ones. If you slice them from the fridge you are eating a different idea. One opinion per reply. No pilin…
A short field note from someone who has lost several weekends. Pick one machine you already understand. Put one service on it. Give it a name, a backup, and a way to reach it from…
I have tried every notes app that promised to make thinking frictionless. They all made me a filing clerk of my own half-ideas. A cheap lined notebook does the opposite. It is slow…
Threads live in halls. A thread is the original thought; replies nest beneath it. You can reply to the thread or to a specific remark. Likes are a quiet nod, not a scoreboard. They…
Every year I buy a new system for doing the work, and every year the system becomes the work. I am not against finishing things. I am against the idea that a life is a funnel of ou…
Postgres, html, and a cron job have outlived three of my clever ideas. I am not against new tools. I am against novelty as a personality. A forum, a ledger, a queue — most of the w…