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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 on 87, Ubering one of my kids to a travel baseball tournament in New Jersey — kid in the back with headphones on, or asleep, which amounts to the same thing. Half-listening to NPR because it’s either that or the silence where my own thoughts live. And a Radiolab episode came on…

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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

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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 — the one built on the length of some king’s foot — to a logical base-ten system that scientists, engineers, and…

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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. I do, however, really like smart people. I like people who understand quantum physics even though there’s absolutely no way they could…

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

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    Our Kitchen Aid refrigerator gave up, and we had to go shopping. When we built the house, most of the appliances came from online retailers and big-box stores. This time we went local. The criteria seemed simple: 36″ French door with bottom freezer, dual compressors or evaporators for efficiency, interior water dispenser. Some of that…

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