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  • Aphantasia, Dyslexia, and ADHD: How I Made a Career in a Visual Industry Without a Functioning Mind’s Eye

    There I was, alone in the car, somewhere on 78, Ubering one of my kids to a travel baseball tournament in New Jersey. Half-listening to NPR because it’s either that or the silence where my own thoughts live. And a Radiolab episode came on and I had a moment. Not a pull-over moment. But close.…

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  • My Clothing Philosophy (Who Even Has One Of Those?)

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    If you’ve been following my ongoing clothing saga — the chore coat search, the Red Wing chronicles, the light duty boot quest — you might have noticed that I have opinions. Strong ones. Possibly unreasonably strong ones for someone who spends a meaningful portion of his life mowing a lawn and cutting firewood. But here…

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  • The Metric System Makes Sense to Everyone: American Misguided Exceptionalism and a $327 Million Spacecraft. 

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    When I was a kid, we started learning the metric system in school. There was an actual plan. America was going to join the rest of the world and switch from the imperial system — you know, the one built on the length of some king’s foot — to a logical, base-ten system that scientists,…

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  • In Defense of Smart People (And Against Shopping Cart Abandoners)

    I’m not the smartest person. Not even close. But I’m also not the dumbest person. I think. Maybe. The jury’s still out, and frankly, I’m not smart enough to serve on that jury. But here’s the thing: I really, really like smart people. I like people who understand quantum physics even though there’s absolutely no…

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  • Café GE Refrigerator: The Good, The Bad, and The “Did Anyone Actually Test This Thing?”

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    When Your Kitchen Aid Gives Up the Ghost There comes a time in every appliance’s life when it decides it’s had enough of keeping your food cold and calls it quits. Such was the fate of our Kitchen Aid refrigerator, which prompted our foray into the brave new world of refrigerator shopping. Having survived the…

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