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Half Dome, Whole Marriage
The trip started, as most bad ideas do, with a spreadsheet. My wife built it in March — twelve tabs, color-coded — and somewhere on tab nine, in a font size I now believe was chosen deliberately, sat a single
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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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The Roster on the Staff Room Wall Is the Real Curriculum
The duty roster in the staff room of a government upper-primary school I visit in the eastern part of the state is a sheet of ruled paper in a plastic sleeve, updated in three different pens. Last …
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We Are Growing the Wrong Rice and Everybody in the Village Knows It
My uncle's field flooded in June, which is what it is for. It flooded again in the second week of August, which is not, and the second flood took the crop. He replanted. The replanting failed too, …
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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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The Field Is Worth More Than It Has Ever Produced
A ropani of terraced land above the road in my mother's village sold last year for a figure that would take about thirty years of that land's agricultural output to recover, at good prices, in a go…
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The Previous Reader Wrote No She Wouldn't in the Margin
I buy my copies secondhand, and not for the reason people assume, which is money; the reason is that a used book arrives with an argument already in progress. The copy of Middlemarch on my desk cos…
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The Sensor Works and the Siren Is Two Kilometres From the Houses
The lake sits at about forty-seven hundred metres behind a moraine dam, and the monitoring installation on it is good. Water level, seismic, a camera, telemetry over satellite because there is no o…
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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 Wall Protects This Ward and Takes the Beach From the Next One
The seawall ends at a survey marker about four hundred metres north of the temple, because that is where the ward ends. North of the marker the beach has lost, by the measurements the fisheries dep…
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