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When I visited him in 1997, during his first year on the job, the “t” had fallen off the large English sign at the company’s entrance. It didn’t seem promising that my former monitor was earning thirty-three dollars a month at a firm that identified itself as “Fuling Ho Pickled Mustard Tuber.”
China’s Reform Generation Adapts to Life in the Middle Class
newyorker.com
We designed our tools for an activity, not an aesthetic. In Paper, we felt the final picture wasn’t the point. Paper was about ideas.
Paper at 10
The Owl and Between Bears
What I actually think people pay me for is the general vibe that I cultivate. It is the feeling that they get at the end of the piece where they think to themselves, “Ah, that was fun and I feel smarter.” Crucially, it doesn’t actually matter whether readers have gotten smarter. My compensation is dependent on the cultivation of that vibe.
Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair
every.to
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