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The Admission Form Has a Column for the Father's Occupation
The form is one side of a sheet, printed cheaply, and I have a copy of it from a low-fee private school in a district town where I ran a workshop for two years. Name of student. Date of birth. Prev…
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A Recording from 1987 Is Now Telling a Living Singer He Is Wrong
In a room in Dharamsala there is a shelf of cassette copies, digitised twice since, of performances recorded between 1984 and 1991 by a collecting project that was one of the more admirable things …
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Love, Laughter, and the Art of Surviving Each Other
Relationships are strange. You meet someone, fall in love, and suddenly you have voluntarily agreed to spend an unreasonable amount of time with one particular human being for the rest of your life. At first, everything seems perfect. You laugh
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We Translated Eleven Languages and the Keyboard Is Still English
The localisation project ran for two quarters and shipped eleven languages. Nine thousand strings, professionally translated, reviewed by native speakers, with a proper pluralisation library. It wa…
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The Sign-Up Sheet Fills From the Top and the Top Is Two in the Afternoon
The conference sign-up goes out in October. Fifteen-minute slots, two o'clock to seven, two days. The early afternoon fills within about six hours of the link going live and the six o'clock slots g…
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Twenty-Two Vendors, Eighteen Weeks, and Four Percent of the Farm's Income
Our market runs Saturdays from May to September in the parking lot behind the Methodist church, twenty-two vendors in a good week. I have had a table there for nine years. It is the best morning of…
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We Shipped a Feature Nobody Used for Eleven Months Because the Metric Loved It
The feature was a smart summary that sat at the top of the feed. It went out in March. By May, the dashboard showed engagement with it climbing steadily, week over week, in a curve that made everyo…
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I Campaigned for the Commission and the Map Barely Moved
I knocked doors for an independent redistricting commission. I wrote a explainer about it that got passed around. When it passed I was genuinely happy, and then I spent two cycles looking at the ma…
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The Tuition Teacher and the School Teacher Are the Same Man
At half past five in the afternoon the children who had been in his class at eleven in the morning arrive at his house, about fourteen of them, and sit on the floor of a room with a blackboard on t…
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The Copyeditor Put the Word in Italics and Changed Who the Book Was For
The proof came back with two hundred and eleven words in italics. Every one of them was a word I had left in Tamil — foods, kinship terms, two songs, the name of a ritual — and every one had been s…
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