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Same Shoe, Different Factory: Who Makes Your Running Shoes

Only two major running brands still own their factories. The rest rent from the same pool of contractors. Many do so with no commitment past the current order.

Very interesting and informative. It’ll certainly change how I think about running shoes.

Nicholas Bate of Hunter Gatherer 21C with an important reminder:“You were, for long stretches, simply out of reach.”

Things The French Find Completely Bizarre – Kimberly Wheeler

Not every thought needs to be announced.
Not every moment needs to become content.
Not every silence needs to be filled.

I think the French have it right.

Congrats to Manu Moreale on 150 interviews completed for his wonderful People and Blogs series. I was honored to be one of those 150.

A Catch-Up Sunday is Like a Small Project Sunday — Bethany Gladhill

It was the kind of day to feel incredibly grateful for the friends and family we have, and the richness of the garden.

Indeed.

Need to Know: Your Power Tools Got Worse On Purpose – Who Really Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee?

Bonus, the brands that are still privately owned and quality first.

An Important reminder at Hunter Gatherer 21C: We are never just ourselves.

We are ourselves plus the world we move through. A human being is not a sealed unit but a creature in constant exchange with its surroundings: light and dark, warmth and cold, soil underfoot, water, the company of others. Take the natural half of that exchange away and something in us quietly begins to fade.

It’s time to go outside and play.

My Back Pages: An Unwritten Book – The Homebound Symphony

The biographer of Robert Zimmerman cannot avoid seeking to disentangle the discoverable truth from the demonstrable untruth. Such disentangling is not impossible, but neither is it interesting, or so I believe.

I’d read this for sure!

Your moment of new study zen.

Now this is my kind of home office.