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‘Smoking indoors feels like listening to smuggled Beatles records in Kiev in 1965. It feels stolen’
‘Some people fear public speaking more than death; these words are for them’
‘I think about noise more than most people since I lost my ability to “focus” sound’
The fish fillet sandwich encapsulates much that’s wrong with our thinking
‘Plastic airline cutlery became a haiku explaining one of humanity’s worst moments’
From wheeled luggage to Segways
We used to have all this stuff stored in our heads but now we don’t. What happened?
Shopping as alchemy: a quick look at the relatively new science of retail
‘Emails between me and the FT have been vanishing for months. It’s beyond a joke’
‘The internet is going to do to us whatever it is going to do — and it’s far too late to stop it’
Some thoughts on beauty, toxicity and the largely unexplored eighth continent of the world
‘In just a quarter of a century we have completely rewritten the menu of possible human moods’
‘If you’re a millennial, a stamped letter is either a bill or from a stalker’
Uber is the poster child of change in the new freeconomy, and how it controls you might surprise you
What did it mean, ‘getting a life’? Did we all get one? Or maybe we’ve all not got lives any more
Another drink to go with your dinner, sir? Unexpected class warfare five miles up
Are we any smarter? Well, we’re not getting stupider . . .
Thank-you notes must be written — and sent
Money is fun but it’s also filthy. Literally
‘How much future can our brains accept before they explode or implode?’
‘Let it be said that I have an addictive personality — and oxycodone is, as hillbilly populations will attest, extremely addictive’
I wonder what my stomach would say to my condiment rack? ‘Oh, hello there, hamburger relish from 1997. Nice to see you again’
Yes, I’m a hoarder. Collecting art is a very specific yet very real dimension of the OCD hoarding condition
Money is the crystallisation of time and free will
When people look at that little bit of land just below San Francisco, they’re looking at wizardry, transmutation and borderline magic
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