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Repair cafés are the real internet of things
A Saturday in a church hall where toasters come back to life.

Notes on a very small server
I moved my family photos to a computer the size of a paperback. Here is what I learned about owning my data.

Learning to read a glacier
Four days on the ice with the people who measure how fast it is leaving.

The heron that did not leave
A single bird, a frozen lake and the stubborn logic of staying.

Notes from a summit that was not the summit
We turned back three hundred metres below the top. It was the best decision of the trip.

Winter is a different language
What changes in a landscape when everything is white, and how to learn to read it.

The ferry timetable as literature
Eleven crossings, one island and a laminated card that explains more than the guidebooks.

The meeting that could have been a silence
A manager's experiment: replace the weekly status meeting with fifteen minutes of nothing.



