Lauren Groff's new book, The Vaster Wilds, is now available for preorder. I loved her previous novel Matrix.
On the difference between growth and scalability. One is a natural process that takes time and values diversity & interconnection and the other optimizes for efficiency & profit. "Growth occurs. It is not made."
This company sells Star Wars scented candles — The Death Star candle has notes of smoked amber, cement, tobacco, forged steel, and black myrrh. What, no Hoth candle that smells like tauntaun innards?
America Makes It Too Hard and Dangerous to Get Divorced. "Divorce in the U.S. is governed by an arbitrary constellation of policies that impede the freedom to end a marriage and have a disproportionately harmful impact on women."
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