$33. That’s how much I calculated an hour of my time being worth up until last year. I took my annual post-tax income and divided it by an estimate of how many hours I worked in a given year. Here’s what immediately happened: I became… Read More
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On Cooking Efficiently: Hidden Apron at Home Ep. 2 Recap
(These are recaps of our “Hidden Apron at Home” Instagram Live sessions held on my @errant_diner account focusing on the fundamentals of cooking as I, a non-chef, understand them. They are based on my experiences learning how to cook and deal with systems and ways… Read More
The Daily Rice: Who is Your Optimal Serveable Community?
Back when I was working in tech, the phrase “Total Addressable Market” (TAM) would often be uttered. This was the potential size of the market that would buy our software and services. It signified the size which we could scale to and thus implied just… Read More
#FoodWriteNow #5: I Miss Feeding/Being Fed
(* During the first year of the pandemic, Julia Turshen (@turshen) hosted daily food writing classes on her Instagram with writing prompts and special guests. These are my responses to her prompts.) Prompt(s) for Thurs. 3/26: “When was the last time someone cooked for you… Read More
On the Best & Worst of Times
A few weeks ago I came across an excerpt from C. S. Lewis’s Present Concerns: Journalistic Essays where the British writer of Narnian fame commented on the anxiety of the Atomic Age (highlights are my own): In one way we think a great deal too… Read More


