Hello & Goodbye

An ins and outs list for the year ahead.

I, along with everyone else, have been spending time combing through the past year. I like to dwell on the past as much as I like to dwell on the future, a huge fan of mulling things over, which is how this humble little newsletter got its start in the first place.

In the coming letters I will give space to some of what I’ve found, but for now I wanted to send some things I’m bringing with me into the year ahead, and some things I’m leaving behind — my ins and outs for the year.

Ins

• Coffee with a little treat sidecar

• Newsletters

• Seeing movies you like in theater, and then seeing them in theater a second time

• Owning secondhand physical copies of books and then giving them away with reckless abandon

• Starting to read a physical book and then audio-booking that same book when you want to keep reading but need to do something else

• Birthday presents

• Block printing

• The library

• Working on projects with friends

• Sunday dinner

• A weekend day out of the house, a weekend day in the house

• Bringing a 12 pack of Diet Coke to the party

• Being in a swimsuit as often as possible

• Hydrated skin

• Long walks with good playlists

• Hanging out with no agenda

• Home cooking

• Drinking infrequently

• Shot of fernet (medicinal)

• Journaling with a little photo printer

• Philip Seymour Hoffman movies

• Knitting your friends hats

• Weekly scheduling

• Your friends’ bands

• Coworking

• Domestic travel

• Robo vacuums

• Beautiful daily flatware

• Buying no more t-shirts

• Video games played socially

• Making everyone read I Who Have Never Known Men

Outs

• Reacting to text messages

• Purchasing for the sake of dopamine

• $20 cocktails outside of New York

• Buying another reusable water bottle

• Being charged for sauce

• Anything self-described as “high brow”

• Not being able to use your movie pass on certain new releases

• Complaining without objective (boring) ((stolen from Nate Knox))

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