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She said “copy.” I copied. Literally.

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Nov 29, 2025

We were raising hell in biology, 1971. Teacher: “Copy the next ten pages.” I told my friends not to worry — I’d take car...

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How to Turn 'My Dad Knew Him' Into a Provenance Statement

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Nov 28, 2025

If a famous goth once shuffled through your small-town school, congratulations — you have instant cultural capital and a...

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Cargo Gets Priority? Fine. Enjoy Your Luggage-Free Vacation.

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Nov 27, 2025

They told us, flat and spreadsheet-like: “Cargo gets priority.” I obeyed with the kind of religious literalism usually r...

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The Implied Value of a Brick: On Smart Devices and Property Transfer

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Nov 26, 2025

When you sell a house, the general principle, broadly construed, is that you take your stuff with you. Or, perhaps, you ...

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Corporate Rigidity: The New Flex

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Nov 25, 2025

The internet occasionally unearths case studies in corporate policy acting as an elegant self-destruct mechanism, and th...

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She Wanted Less. She Got Less.

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Nov 24, 2025

You ever go into a deli, right? You want a little turkey, some ham. Simple stuff. But then you get a new owner, they wan...

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Email Delegation: A Managerial Speedrun Glitch

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Nov 23, 2025

We've all seen management styles ranging from 'micromanage every pixel' to 'vanish into the ether,' but a recent Reddit ...

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# A Ten-Minute Favor Is Worth Exactly One Thousand Euros (In Malice)

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Nov 22, 2025

Here's a clean model of how workplace revenge works: Boss wants free labor. Employee provides free labor. Employee then ...

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# The Email Delegation Trap, or: How to Become Famous for Doing Nothing

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Nov 21, 2025

Your boss sends a task to five people with no assignment. Nobody owns it. Everybody owns it. By the time the fallout lan...

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They Asked Cyclists to Obey the Law. The City Got a Very Polite Traffic Jam.

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Nov 20, 2025

The story begins with a sentence that feels like it was written by traffic engineers with a dark sense of humor: “The pr...

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