Space Age Maximalist

Sweatergate is a sociological Schelling point of group cohesion for a nascent movement rapidly gaining traction, inevitably appealing enough to outsiders to motivate them joining and then stumbling over their 'outsiderness' - their unawareness of unspoken in-group norms. Eventually there must be perestroika and glasnost, education camps for account managers and fixed income asset analysts to take weekend shop classes laboring over dimensional tolerances, clamping fixtures, tap and die charts. Only then can they realize what it meant to outsource this all along, to deprive their countrymen the joy of creation for a better margin and seat in a fluorescent cubicle. Until then they are stumbling blind, the patriotic cubiculars desperate to industrialsmaxx while driving an imported car and oblivious to their spiritual transgressions to the ethos of the movement. Forgive thee thy sins of white collar provenance, blessed are the Carharted for these shall inherit the vibe mandate of heaven.

I'm sure X will be thrilled to hear that we're going to shut our brand. Yes, we made a mistake in launching a Reindustrialize sweater that was made in Portugal, but we truly did look for 3 months for a factory in the US that would make it at 50 MOQ and couldn't find one. Our plan was to launch it and see if there was enough demand for it to justify a larger MOQ. Also, we thought that in the process of doing this, there was a good chance we'd unsurface a factory that could do it. (Which we did. It seems the only factory in the US that can do this has a website that says they're a fabric company.) Our brand was about a love for technologists and wanting to make them look better. All the nastiness of the past week destroyed that for us. Tech bros are clearly not supportive of anyone else but other tech bros in building start-ups. Instead of a positive, constructive, builder-supportive, "Hey, here's a US factory that can make your next run," we were subject to a slew of abuse. I lost my life savings doing this, which should make everyone happy. (Yes, I'm Croatian.) I need to go get a job now. We have piles of inventory: all the next planned drops of clothes we made to honor tech culture that we're now just going to give away. Doing a thread of the clothes now. DM us your size and address if you want something, but please say something kind. We don't want to contribute any more negativity to the world.

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hmm something aint right

had dinner with an old roommate who's been building his company for a few years. what became most striking is that he is now in a beautiful flow with his life. his days are devotionally repetitive: jiu jitsu at 7am, coffee, then work until 6pm. Spend time with his wife, read for a bit, then sleep. He tells me that his days are structured and predictable because that is how he does his best work. he says that he is no longer distracted, it is very easy to focus for long periods of time i felt something profound hearing this, because i have often felt that i need every day to be dynamic and unpredictable to feel satiated. but the person sitting in front of me is pouring all of his attention in the present moment, while my mind is fragmented somewhere between the past and the future, frothing with to-dos and what-ifs it felt increasingly obvious that while his routine looks boring from the outside, he is deeply interested in his life, and while my life may look interesting, I feel bored and distracted often, because my attention is shallow and thinly spread in comparison

A door blows open in your mind when you learn about the suffix -le, it explains so much. People used to add it to verbs to mean ‘rapidly’, more than once, or continuously. So originally, to ramble is to roam on, to jostle is to joust repeatedly, to jiggle is to dance a jig quickly, and to sparkle is to emit lots of sparks.

There will be a day where we can quantity vibes. What would you call the measurement unit?

Why have testosterone levels been rising over time? The testosterone levels of American men are up compared to what they used to be, but no one has a good explanation. Let's look through some possibilities🧵