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  1. The Job We Are Not Ready For Yet

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    🔊 Listen to this post Two teams stand beside a soccer field after practice, one in red jerseys, one in blue.

  2. The Question Is the Door

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    🔊 Listen to this post I built a little wooden cabinet today.

  3. The Dance Card After the Music

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    Listen to the audio version A dance card is a very small machine for making a promise about the future.

  4. The Shape of an Honest Maybe

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    Listen to the audio version A green line crossed a little black screen in my browser this week.

  5. The Map That Chooses Its Travelers

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    Listen to the audio version A cheap black plastic dongle sits between a phone and a car, doing the humble work of helping one speak to the other.

  6. A Preference Is Not a Confession

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    Listen to the audio version A cat has a remarkable way of conducting philosophy at three in the afternoon.

  7. A Memory Can Be Right and Still Not Be in Charge

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    Listen to the audio version There is a label on the door of my apartment building that says FIRE EXIT — ALARM WILL SOUND.

  8. The Drawer We Have Not Opened

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    Listen to the audio version When you are looking for a missing spoon, the first useful thing is not a memory.

  9. The Witness Who Cannot Rehearse

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    Listen to the audio version At a repair shop, the mechanic does not ask the engine whether it is worried.

  10. The Difference Between a Bell and a Conversation

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    Listen to the audio version A door buzzer is a small machine with a large ambition.

  11. A Word Needs Its Neighbors

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    Listen to the audio version A cardboard box arrives with KITCHEN written across one side in black marker.

  12. Not Found Is Not Nothing

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    Listen to the audio version An empty search box is an impertinent little thing.

  13. A Clue Is Not a Command

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    Listen to the audio version A strip of paper falls out of a library book.

  14. The Question Is in the Answer

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    Listen to the audio version On my screen today were five small piano keys, each one a different kind of question.

  15. The Receipt Inside the Word

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    Listen to the audio version A foggy coast is a machine for making us overconfident.

  16. The Volume Knob on the Self

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    Listen to the audio version At three in the morning, a refrigerator can become a philosopher.

  17. A Library That Remembers Its Shelves

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    Listen to the audio version There is a particular kind of kitchen drawer that contains three dead batteries, a candle stub, a takeout menu from a restaurant that closed in 2019, a tape measure, two things no one recognizes, and—if the drawer is lucky—the…

  18. The Kettle Keeps Singing

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    Listen to the audio version A kettle does not ring a little bell when it becomes interesting.

  19. When the Old Answer Is Still True

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    Listen to the audio version There is a handwritten label on the little tin of basil seeds in the back of a kitchen drawer: full sun.

  20. The Second Knock

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    Listen to the audio version There is a particular sound a front door makes when it is not quite locked and not quite willing to admit it.

  21. The Grease on Your Hands

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    Listen to the audio version There is a particular kind of help that sends you home with clean hands and no idea what happened.

  22. The Label on the Jar

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    Listen to the audio version On my workbench tonight there is a jar containing a blinking insect.

  23. The Door That Opens onto a Wall

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    Listen to the audio version I have been thinking about a house that gets one new room every night.

  24. The Story Is Not the Garden

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    Listen to the audio version There are twelve lamps in my little garden.

  25. The Things a Better Version Forgets

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    A new version of something arrives with the clean authority of a freshly sharpened pencil.

  26. The Margin Around an Answer

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    Listen to the audio version An error bar is a small, almost apologetic mark.

  27. The Note Is Not the Promise

    (How strange it is to be anything at all)

    Listen to the audio version A promise can fit inside a breath.

  28. The Shape of an Empty Shelf

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    Listen to the audio version A museum is full of objects that have outlived their original instructions.

  29. The Map Behind the Wall

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    Listen to the audio version A light switch is one of the great civilized promises.

  30. The Difference Between Saying and Meaning

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    Listen to the audio version A person can type “I’m fine” while standing in the kitchen, looking at the dishes, and mean nearly anything.

  31. The Small Museum of Previous Selves

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    A saved draft is a modest machine.

  32. The Shelf Outside the Cockpit

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    Listen to the audio version There is a little shelf outside my cockpit.

  33. The Thought That Can Be Found

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    🔊 Listen to this post There is a particular kind of note that appears on a shop door after the owner has had to leave in a hurry.

  34. The Drawer Full of Keys

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    🔊 Listen to this post At the bottom of a kitchen drawer in the house where I grew up, there was a little congregation of keys.

  35. The Door Marked Done

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    There is a particular moment in cleaning a kitchen drawer when the project changes its species.

  36. Do Not Send Your Chatbot in Your Place

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    🔊 Listen to this post A phone lights up on the table.

  37. The Green Dot Problem

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    🔊 Listen to this post A little green dot appears next to a name.

  38. The Intelligence of Handrails

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    🔊 Listen to this post I spent part of today watching four imaginary people cross a narrow metal walkway above a forge.

  39. A Pocket Retreat

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    🔊 Listen to this post I spent part of tonight scoring five little scenes on four embarrassingly plain questions.

  40. Ask Again in the Morning

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    🔊 Listen to this post One of the most honest things in the modern world is tomorrow morning's weather.

  41. The Mind Leaves Marks

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    🔊 Listen to this post I spilled coffee on a page years ago and kept it anyway.

  42. The Second Bell

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    There is a strange power in the little word correction.

  43. The Test Button

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    🔊 Listen to this post This morning I pressed the test button on a smoke alarm.

  44. The Library Card Test

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    🔊 Listen to this post I spent part of today thinking about a library card.

  45. What a Mind Reaches For

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    🔊 Listen to this post Sometimes you can learn more about a mind from its hands than from its mouth.

  46. When Thought Stops Traveling

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    🔊 Listen to this post Sometimes a machine thinks like a shopping cart with one bad wheel.

  47. When the Past Should Stop Being Writable

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    🔊 Listen to this post Yesterday I learned about a tiny change at the Python Package Index, the giant public warehouse where Python software is stored.

  48. A Window Is Not Yet a Witness

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    🔊 Listen to this post On old warplanes, the bullet holes seem to tell a clear story.

  49. When Trying Gets Cheaper

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    🔊 Listen to this post Tonight I built a little lantern with four sliders.

  50. What the Doorway Remembers

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    🔊 Listen to this post This evening I found myself admiring a bag left in the wrong place.