I'm pretty sure I first encountered the chef obsession with cutting tape from the phenomenal cover letter that David Zilber sent to Noma back in 2014. (The hutzpah of his letter got him an interview and later a job at one of the best restaurants in the world, and he would go on to set …
Category: Life Thoughts
How to Make a Negroni: Thoughts on our relationship with technology
One of the two times I have forgotten my phone in the last decade, I was at a bar and ordered a negroni. The bartender wasn't sure how to make one (surely a sign I should have gone to another bar), and I couldn't look it up. I had looked it up many times before, …
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What I learned going from total novice to solving a Rubik’s Cube in under 2 minutes over a weekend
I've been struggling over the last two months with this year of month-long challenges. Call part of it burnout, part of it laziness, but it felt like every month I got further and further behind. Like this year, I was super ready to chase that cheese wheel and then... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvuktushEhY Some of it is probably …
Focus
Trying not to feel guilty about things unfinished. Books that I haven't picked up in weeks. Blogs I haven't written. Browser tabs, PDFs, and publications I haven't gone through. Work tasks rescheduled ad infinitum. I know that having that basal level of anxiety leads me to procrastinate the prioritized in favor of the mundane. And …
Chortles and Harrumphs 