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Consumption Diary #4
December 16, 2020
A key part of this challenge is to record a weekly consumption diary. This will both hold me accountable to readers of this blog, and will allow me to think...
Sargable and Non-Sargable Desires
December 15, 2020
There’s a particular aroma, fruitiness in the names that computer scientists give their problems: parameter sniffing, leaky abstractions, busy beaver...
Why is purchase pleasure? (Part 2)
December 12, 2020
Unlike our last encounter with why purchase is so pleasurable, what follows is something delightful that doesn’t exist directly in the purchase, but which is...
How Cheap it is to Be Rich
December 9, 2020
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor; and if one is a member of a captive population, economically...
Consumption Diary #3
December 9, 2020
A key part of this challenge is to record a weekly consumption diary. This will both hold me accountable to readers of this blog, and will allow me to think...
Leaving the Casino
December 7, 2020
A friend-of-a-friend of mine plays Genshin Impact, an expansive open-world RPG that includes an in-game gacha mechanic where the player can spend real-world...
Consumption Diary #2
December 2, 2020
A key part of this challenge is to record a weekly consumption diary. This will both hold me accountable to readers of this blog, and will allow me to think...
Why is purchase pleasure? (Part 1)
December 1, 2020
I’m thinking about shopping holidays today, in honor of BFCM, an initialism I hadn’t seen until this year—it means Black Friday and Cyber Monday, though I...
Consumption Diary #1
November 24, 2020
A key part of this challenge is to record a weekly consumption diary. This will both hold me accountable to readers of this blog, and will allow me to think...
Mindless Consumption and Mindful Consumption
November 24, 2020
An idea I have begun to dwell on, which I believe goes hand-in-hand with this challenge, is that of mindful consumption. We often refer to consumption as...
Something to not let this become
November 17, 2020
I don’t think that turning off consumerist thoughts, or it’s rough analogue in only buying used goods for a year, is going to be any sort of cure-all. Nor do...
Nothing New, A Challenge and a Community
November 17, 2020
Briefly or at length, a tentative desire, an actionable goal, rules to get me there, and a larger aspiratoin. A Tentative Desire: There is, and I am surfing...
A Year Without New
November 17, 2020
Welcome to Nothing New's Letter by me, Nothing New. Attempting to reduce my consumption by only buying used. Sign up now so you don’t miss the first issue....