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• Built over decades

  I first noticed this pattern with Brompton bicycles. Founded by British engineer Andrew Ritchie, this folding bike has been continuously refined since 1975. The company has produced essentially the same bike, with …

• Carrying a camera to pause more often

  I was reading Byung-Chul Han’s The Scent of Time, and in the essay The Scent of Oak Wood he articulated something I had been feeling for some time. He argued that our time is defined by an acceleration of events, …