A friend recently got me into Pokémon cards, and last week I walked into a trading card store for the first time. Something immediately felt off. […]

There’s a version of hard times where you spend a lot of energy measuring. What other people started with, what was handed to them, what you […]

Notice how every “I left the Bay Area” essay sounds like every other “I left the Bay Area” essay. The cost-of-living paragraph. The traffic paragraph. The […]