The Roadster Flew. My Cybertruck Did Not.
The new Tesla Roadster targets 2028 production and has no price yet. Reserving the Thrust version costs $250,000. I watched the reveal from my Cybertruck.
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Quiet Luxury Before It Had a Name
Quiet luxury means expensive style with no logos and no flash. The term went mainstream in 2023. Years ago I wrote my own version in a memo: not flashy, not plain.
Is Anti-Design Still Design?
Anti-design breaks design rules on purpose. A viewer looks at Ray Gun, Memphis and the blurry green Brat cover, and lands on an answer: it's still design.
Your Feed Will Outlive You
When you die, Facebook and Instagram can memorialize or delete your account, and Google lets you pick up to 10 people to notify. What their help pages say.
The Humblebrag Is Just Thinking Out Loud, Badly
I have a memo that’s really a question. “Is saying out loud what you should keep in your head the same as quietly showing…
Go Develop a Roll of Film Before It’s Gone
My memo says: try analog things soon, before they disappear, like developing photos. What actually happened to Kodachrome, and why film is still around.
Someday We’ll Pay for Air (We Already Pay for Water)
My memo says what we take for granted today will be sold someday, the way water is. Canned air, gas station air and first-bag fees, all real.
Professional Overthinker, Amateur Decider
My memo says it plainly: "Worrying, not deciding, not moving. That's me." On Buridan's donkey, the famous jam study, and what it does and doesn't prove.
Accounting Starts With a Notebook: The Korean Household Ledger Habit
Two memos: "accounting starts with a household ledger" and "it all adds up 100 won at a time." On the Korean 가계부 habit and Japan's kakeibo.
Leftovers Are Food Thrown Away in Advance
In some places a little leftover food is polite. In others, clean your plate. My memo has a simpler take: leftovers are food you threw away in advance.
What Steve Jobs Actually Said About Marketing (and Packaging)
Did Steve Jobs hate marketing? His 1997 Think Different meeting says otherwise. What he actually said, and my memos on packaging vs. the thing inside.
Time Doesn’t Fly. It Commutes.
Why do we say time "goes"? My memo says: let's say it comes. On "tempus fugit," why some hours feel short, and why everyone's clock runs differently.