So, What Did I Miss? “How much can possibly happen when I’m on parental leave?” I said five months ago.

@petridishes.bsky.social is at The Atlantic and I get to work with her, lucky me! Read her great first essay:

"I have pulled a rare reverse Rip van Winkle. Rip took a brief, well-deserved nap and woke up decades later to discover that his country no longer had a king. I did the opposite of that."

Shopping Shouldn’t Be Instantaneous A bit of inconvenience can be useful.

Had fun trawling through some takes on shopping in @theatlantic.com archives, and came to the conclusion that a bit of inconvenience in the purchase process is probably a good thing: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...