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Essays, dispatches, newsletters, and notes on technology, creativity, and the future.

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Tracey

She dropped her satchel on the floor, the multitude of unconverged, expensive and fragile contents scratching and curmudgeoning like war-beaten cats in an...

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Blind Date

There was a strange incense burning, smelling of lemon dishwashing soap mixed with marijuana. She surveyed the room's statues of many-armed creatures; these,...

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Gone.

I have this fantasy. Over the course of a few months I would slowly tie off loose ends, get my affairs in order, and stockpile required supplies. I would...

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My "Do Nothing" Vacation

Here is a sign that I have a mental disease: I kept telling people "I intend to spend my Christmas vacation doing absolutely nothing" and then the FRIDAY night...