I wanted to take a break this week, since it was the most special week of the year, then I kept delaying last week’s issue, and now I'm so late that this week has basically already become last week. Also, I can’t stop taking pictures of plants.

Notes and links

• Sausalito has streets that were never built and exist theoretically only underwater

  A weird quirk of urban planning.

• San Francisco’s billboards aren’t for you

  It’s hard not to see the pervasiveness of all the tech-related ads as the voice of the city. And very hard not to take it personally.

• San Francisco wants to destroy a 96-year-old’s defining artwork

  I’m not sure how I feel about this.

• Mike Monteiro on how to make coffee

  Coffee is just an excuse.

• Types of synesthesia in alphabetical order

  What a beautiful rabbit hole.

• How every business morphs into a bank

  Are banks the crabs of business?

• Liquid Glass is cracked

  Eventually someone at Apple will feel the shame/shade.

• Italians and the “smart working” trap

  Fake English is never a good sign.

• The New York Times reviews Manhattan Murder Mystery

  What’s better than Diane Keaton trying to catch a murderer with a giant île flottante?