







These Nine L.A. Dishwashers Are the Real Heroes of Your Favorite Restaurants ~ L.A. TACO
Anthony Bourdain said it best: "Everything important I ever learned, I learned as a dishwasher and as a cook." These are just a handful of the places restaurants' MVPs eat and drink at around Los Angeles.

The Flotilla Letters: Catching Up
I’ve been chugging away on the Crowbar Handbook which you can read as I write each section (recent sections include How to Ditch Your Stuff, What to Do About Work, and Eat Well for Less).
An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants
To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a professional writer for decades, even though the number of ways to make

A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin | East Bay Booksellers
One of The New York Times’ 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Global bestseller. A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin.
Serving the For You Feed - AT Protocol
How the maintainer of the popular For You feed serves it from their living room!

A letter to my younger self: big things start small
What I wish I had known when starting my career in consumer tech a decade ago…
Holding Pattern by Jenny Xie | East Bay Booksellers
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, VOGUE, VULTURE, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, AND ELECTRIC LITERATUREA NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION "5 UNDER 35" HONOREE"Exquisite and wise.
Seven Theses from Feeding the Machine
New Book – Publication 18 July 2024 (UK) / 8 August 2024 (US)


The book — Good Services
“This book is long overdue. It will become a must-read for the service design community, but this book is also for everyone working with services”

The Problem with Letters of Recommendation | The Point Magazine
This is the eleventh in a series of columns on public philosophy by Agnes Callard; read more here. Twenty-five years ago a secretary made a mistake, […]

Plates · Your menu, everywhere
Publish your restaurant's menu once, as structured data you own. Plates gives it a beautiful page, and the open network carries it everywhere else.

Digital gardening
I've been thinking about gardens this week. It started while reading the book Shopkeeping, which had a section entitled "Gardening": > A good shopkeeper will no...

Digital gardening
I've been thinking about gardens this week. It started while reading the book Shopkeeping, which had a section entitled "Gardening": > A good shopkeeper will no...

Playbooks — Renaissance Philanthropy – A brighter future for all through science, technology, and innovation
Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language defines 253 methods for constructing beautiful and practical designs at every scale, from cities to rooms.

Cutting through the clutter, in life and the kitchen sink.