The Desk

— Sasha is designing things.

He is climbing mountains and writing essays

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Essays
#1

An Invitation, a Secret Society

I’d like to invite you to join me in newsletter-dom. This will not be your average newsletter. It will be about creative process and exper
#2

Finding Fuji

Falling into and out of love with the Fujifilm X-T1
#3

How to Care in a Buttonless World

Mechanical controls, fake loops and digital ambiguity in the era of touch screens
#4

The Humble Micro-interaction

When we talk of software, we fetishize big ideas. but what of the humble micro-interaction?
#5

The Superman

Extreme sports and the tyranny of comfort
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Night Letters
#1

Kobe Bryant’s Ring Finger and Perfect Piles of Pottery

Email #006 of The Night Letters: Brevity, Volume, and the Value of Imperfection
#2

Mind the Gap

Email #005 of The Night Letters: Ironing at 17,847 Feet, Long-term Focus, and Stone Carving
#3

The Asterisks of 2021

Email #004 of The Night Letters: Creative collimation, Asterisks, and Roger Maris
#4

Ignoring Jack Nicholson

Email #003 of The Night Letters: Getting it done and dealing with those little voices
#5

Little Blue Books

Email #002 of The Night Letters: An entrepreneurial venture
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