An early morning mix with Poem/1
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Notes and links - May 31st 2026
Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: Posh Grandpa is fashion’s new main characterThe latest character dressing trend may be a little silly but there’s an off-kilter pleasure in its mellow, vintage vibeThe GuardianJess Cartner-Morley
Tides of Sound
Fantastic 30 mins from Radio 3 "At the crest of Japan's economic bubble, in the spring of 1991, a radio station unlike any other began broadcasting from satellite into homes across the country. St.GIGA carried no news, no commercials, no DJs. Instead, it offered an unbroken
Constraints make things interesting
This is a saying stolen and adapted from the splendid Paynter people. I talk about it in the Do Interesting book. And I've been thinking of it because I've been reading Inside The Box by David Epstein. It's about the fact that freedom doesn&
Plausibly meditative
I've started waking up unaccountably early. 5am most days. Not deliberately, I just wake up. And it's not a bad thing, I enjoy the mornings so I get up. But then I find myself at a loose end. It doesn't feel like reading time,