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Welcome to Workshop
Welcome to a new project: a members-only newsletter experiment on Contraption Company called Workshop. So far this year, 98k people have read essays on this site\1\(fn1), and more than 4k subscribe to...

Backup plans
I’ve always been fascinated by planes. A few years ago, I took an introductory class toward a private pilot’s license - and it was less fun than I expected. The plane pretty much flies itself; the pil...

Before and after Almost Perfect
At the beginning of this year, I spent a couple of weeks at the Almost Perfect creative residence in Tokyo, run by Luis and Yuka. This week Luis and Yuka published a podcast we recorded during my resi...