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I Made a Chair
A beginner's cheerful account of designing and building a wooden chair by hand, with the mistakes, lessons and small tri…
I Made My Blog Solar-Powered, Then Things Escalated
A hobbyist's tale of running a blog on a tiny solar-powered server, and how the project snowballed into batteries, panel…
I Organized a 20-Acre Game of Capture the Flag
A student's first-person account of planning and running a huge capture-the-flag game across twenty acres, with rules, l…
I Pitched a Roller Coaster to Disneyland at Age 10
A warm personal story of a ten-year-old who mailed a roller coaster idea to Disneyland in 1978 and what happened next, t…
I Printed My Instagram Feed for a Month
A writer prints out her Instagram feed every day for a month instead of scrolling, and reports what changed about attent…
I Sell Onions on the Internet
A charming first-person essay on getting laid off and stumbling into running a Vidalia onion shop online, with candid le…
I Walked Across Luxembourg
A first-person account of hiking the Grand Duchy from west to east on foot, with trail notes, villages, weather and thou…
If We Can Soar
A long-form Pipe Wrench story about the Black men of South Central Los Angeles who have raised Birmingham Roller pigeons…
If you unscrew your belly button, your bottom will fall off
A warm and funny tribute from a son to his late father, listing the life lessons he taught, from belly-button warnings t…
I'm a Philosopher Who Tries to See the Best in Others
A first-person piece by a USC philosopher on giving other people the benefit of the doubt, and on recognizing where char…
I'm a Scam Prevention Expert, and I Got Scammed
A security professional gives a long, candid step-by-step account of how a convincing phone scam fooled her anyway, and…
Improve Your Social Skills
A free, thorough guide to social skills covering body language, conversation, making friends and building confidence, wr…
Indefinite Backpack Travel
A long-running guide by someone who sold everything in 2015 to live out of one bag, with packing lists, gear choices and…
In-Fisherman
A freshwater fishing publication with species behavior breakdowns, seasonal tactics, and gear reviews for anglers chasin…
Intentionally Making Close Friends
A candid account of one deliberate experiment in practicing friendship as a skill, with concrete lessons on making and k…
Interruptions Cost 23 Minutes 15 Seconds, Right?
A myth-busting dig into the famous claim that every interruption costs 23 minutes of focus, tracing the number back thro…
Into the Sky: Cluster Ballooning
A pilot's first-hand account of cluster ballooning, flying across the countryside hanging beneath dozens of helium ballo…
Is Seattle a 15-Minute City?
An analysis of how many Seattle residents can walk to groceries, schools and parks within 15 minutes, with neighborhood…
Is this a good book for me, now?
A short essay arguing that a book has no fixed objective value, only value to a particular person in a particular contex…
Ise-ji: Walk With Me
A walker's notes from the coastal Ise-ji pilgrimage route in Mie, Japan, savouring small villages, worn coffee shops, sh…
Japan's book scene is moving from bookstores to libraries
A look at how small local libraries across Japan are becoming travel destinations for book lovers as bookstores shrink,…
Jung and his Individuation Process
An approachable look at Carl Jung's idea of individuation, the lifelong process of integrating the conscious and unconsc…
Just How Bad Is Sleep Deprivation?
A parallax-scrolling timeline that walks through the day-by-day effects of going without sleep, from the first missed ni…
Kakizome: The Japanese New Year Resolution
A personal essay on kakizome, the Japanese New Year tradition of writing a resolution in calligraphy, with family memori…
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