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I WRITE (KINDA). YOU READ. WE THINK.


ASSORTED LINKS FROM WEEK42, 2024

🍄🗡 The last object I was expecting when we talked about an Objet column in
Dirt was The Sanrio Machete. But Michelle did it and it’s a banger.



> “Do you feel badass with your machete?” No, I thought, I feel like Simone Weil
> handling a firearm.







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1 response   //   Posted 2 weeks ago


WHAT'S NEXT FOR MUSIC?

Ted Gioia -or The Honest Broker; which I highly recommend- posted a few days
ago: Nine Predictions for the Future of the Music Business. First I'd suggest a
10th prediction: a new cohort of companies cooperatively owned by the artists
themselves, the workers and/ or the community.

Two recent examples I'm very excited about: Hearing Things -or the next
cooperatively owned Pitchfork [i.e. music journalism]; and Subvert -launching
today; join me and many other artists, labels and supporters and become a
founding member- or a collectively owned Bandcamp successor [i.e. online record
store and music community].



A Concert - attributed to Granddaughters of Dr. Samuel Parr - The MET

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1 response   //   Posted 2 weeks ago


KIDS SCREEN TIME IS AN URBANISM PROBLEM

This summer, I went to a nice space in SF named Founders, Inc. -in a quite
amazing spot in the city by the way: Fort Mason; with a very 'San-Franciscan'
view- listen to a live discussion between Ryan Hoover and Furqan.

Something Ryan said stuck with me since then: 'adjacent 2nd order impact'. As a
non-human bot gently detailed it for us: "Second-order effects, also known as
second-order consequences, refer to the indirect or ripple effects that occur as
a result of an action or decision, which may not be immediately apparent. While
first-order effects are the direct outcomes of an action, second-order effects
are the subsequent changes that result from those initial outcomes.".

My mind started to wonder constantly about possible second-order effects around
us. Two topics close to hearts -for obvious reasons- are: kids [I'm a father
after all] and urbanism [I've lived all my life in urban areas and I'm a
skateboarder, so my natural 'playground' are the streets]. Meanwhile, I was
living this summer a kinda perfect suburban life in Berkeley, CA. Here are some
behind-the-scenes pics and details by Mathilde if curious.

So when Steyn published his view on screen time limit -tl;dr: they've never
enforced screen time limits on their kids [now 5 and 3 yo]- and then shared it
on the #parent-lounge channel from the Sublime slack [oof] it occurred to me:
kids screen time might just be an urbanism problem.



Jump Rope, from The Games of the Urchins of Paris - 1770 - by Jean-Baptiste
Tilliard - artic

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1 response   //   Posted 2 weeks ago


ASSORTED LINKS FROM WEEK41, 2024

😇 Many things in this ‘30 values, beliefs, and other ideas’ by Jackson
resonated: Things to Remember.





> It all comes down to love and gratitude. Happiness is love, full stop.

👧👦 Mathilde insisted I read that one and it’s a must-read indeed. Freya dug
into ‘our broken homes’ and how it affected -more than we might think- an entire
generation. The subtitle itself is powerful: ‘we simply don’t believe anyone
will stay’ -it gives me goosebumps. As a young father of two who grew up in a
very broken home -no father and a hard-working mum who didn’t have any bandwidth
most of the time- that post feels quite special. The Age of Abandonment.



> Throughout history our ancestors built customs and institutions to bind us
> together and then, one by one, we kicked them down. We killed God, we mocked
> marriage, we attacked the family, we uprooted neighbourhoods, we debunked
> every last myth and story. And we kept going and going, until we got here,
> with our sad little divorce parties. Until we got here, with a generation
> huddled, heartbroken, fearful of love, fearful of life, kicking away at
> anything that reaches out to help. We lifted the burden from adults, told
> parents to do what makes them happy, forgetting that those structures weren’t
> just limits on adult freedom; they were foundations for children to stand on,
> to step off from, on which they depended. We shattered them and now we wonder
> why a generation is falling apart. Welcome to the age of abandonment.



Shimayama-san behind the counter of his tiny shop in Akihabara, Tokyo, which he
ran for 43 years. Photo by Lee Chapman

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Posted 2 weeks ago


ASSORTED LINKS FROM WEEK39 TO 40, 2024

🪡 🌁 Last week was special with Objet -we threw our second soirée in SF on
Friday and got lucky to see some great folks share the love.

What Saumya and Colt are building is so important. Check their work out: Build
IRL Newsletter #22. And especially if you’re living in SF, they always share
some cool events you can join. That’s how I knew about the new IRL Movie Club
for instance and got to watch the Join or Die documentary.

I can’t agree more with Caitlin and really liked her invitation to move from
volume to value: Less Volume, More Value. I also agree with her ‘medium-hot
take’: “volume-based growth lacks imagination”.

🍄 👜 Dirt also introduced their new column -Objet- in collaboration with us.
They’ve asked five writers to write about a single object that is significant to
them and will be publishing these essays in the coming months. For its first:
Marlowe Granados on the cathartic potential of a second-hand bag: The Bakelite
Bag.

> I like to think of them [old things] as talismans of the past. I don’t just
> put them on display but use them as they were made to be used.

> There’s also a sense that whatever it witnessed through my ownership is just a
> minor chapter in the bag’s life. It holds my secrets but also the mysteries of
> those that came before me. I can only hope to pass it on as the common thread
> between me and generations of stylish women.







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1 response   //   Posted 4 weeks ago


LET'S TALK ABOUT MERCH FOR A MINUTE (OR 2)

Let me tell you a story: I was wearing this white Ketchup t-shirt last Saturday
during a 5k run in the Golden Gate Park. Julian might have been the first
-definitely not the last- to come and ask me how much I like Ketchup. Later on
while we were getting our morning coffee at Flywheel, someone came and asked me
if I was also working at Heinz. That’s when I saw his sweatshirt -Ketchup
related of course- and we all had a good laugh and started talking. First
question from him being: 'where did you get this?' and since it’s coming from my
favorite burger spot in France, it led us to talk about Lyon, the food scene, SF
and so on.





Ketchup tee gently offered -out of my loyalty- by the Smash Burger in Lyon

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3 responses   //   Posted a month ago


ASSORTED LINKS FROM WEEK38, 2024

San Francisco is great on all fronts but my personal writing. Objet n°2 is
coming on Oct. 4th. If you want to embed memories into your clothing, RSVP here.








⏳ Since we’re talking about memories, handle them with care. Julia delivered a
banger on Reboot: A Strange Kind of Memory.





> Our brains can’t store every observation, thought or perception that passes
> through and that isn’t a bad thing. Constraints and selections are what allow
> us to stay sane in a world of complete sensory overload.

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Posted a month ago


ASSORTED LINKS FROM WEEK37, 2024

⏳ Real long-term thinking is so underrated. I’d love to find a way to teach this
skill to both our kids. Bill Gates framed it quite perfectly a while ago: “most
people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can
do in ten years.“. Kyle delivered a banger here. I felt invited to reflect on my
own life while reading the piece: Decades.



> Long-term thinking suddenly makes short-term thinking appear incredibly silly.



'View of the World from 9th Avenue', Saul Steinberg cover for The New Yorker
magazine in March, 1976

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Posted a month ago


ASSORTED LINKS FROM WEEK36, 2024

🎹 I’ve always loved a good brand story so when I received Waqas's deep dive on
Teenage Engineering, I felt excited right away. Why Teenage Engineering is so
Cool. This is exactly the type of opinionated company and brand we'd like to see
more of. Which makes me wonder: why are there so few in the world? How can we
empower more people to launch weirder and cooler things?







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2 responses   //   Posted 2 months ago


ON THE PROLIFERATION AND EFFICIENCY OF WRITING CIRCLES

First and foremost, it's time to celebrate. I'm on my longest streak re: writing
on this blog. I've been publishing every month since Sept. 2024, reaching a
13-month streak. The 2nd-longest was 'only' 11-month -I reached that mark twice
in the past though. The best news still: I've no intention to stop. So I expect
this 'record' to be beaten on a regular basis going forward -every month
literally. What did trigger it?



Officers of U.S.S. Hunchback - formerly attributed to Mathew B. Brady

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