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Exactly, I learned French working in Cote d'Ivoire/Mali and from listening to west African music like Magic System etc. The Parisians cannot stand my (now terrible) French and it's…

This led me to an amazing NYT profile of Lynch from 1990: https://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/14/magazine/a-dark-lens-on-a...

The thing about Meditations is that it's advice from a Roman Emperor, and, at first blush, more important than the advice of a 30 y.o. tech bro. But only a few years later Altman h…

the same Ted Chiang who wrote the short story that inspired the movie Arrival, which is in the very excellent short story collection Story of Your Life and Others...

As someone whose main career is in editorial and commercial photography, I ask this all the time. Many of my clients advertise in glossy magazines and many of the stories I shoot g…

Yep, it's physical for me. The calm and linear quality of a printed magazine. Sub to: - Economist - New Yorker - Foreign Affairs - New York Review of Books - London Review of Books…

I worked for years for a professional photographer with a vast commercial archive. After every finished project we would copy the files to a thumb drive and print the top 10-20 ima…

Hasselblad were acquired by the drone manufacturers DJI, and things have gone super-digital. Some great concept digital cameras (and digital mounts), but they've probably forgotten…

Oof, I did all of this, for years. I had a Nikon Coolscan 9000 that was the best scanner I ever had for 35mm and 120mm film. I worked professionally and would submit perfect scans …

It less about the devices and more about giving the mind some simple physical task. I have the same thing with any solitary sport. Rowing/Sculling in particular. No phones in the b…

Yes, many many times. I used to work in Haiti and though we had wifi on base I relished any time away from it. I used to hike between the villages there and carry a $20 dumb (dual …