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Products Are Bad, But These Products Are Good
2020 was ripe with horrible lessons, a real year of realizing things, but one of my most annoying and rather late realizations was finally understanding that products suck.
Stuff is bad. The stuff on the shelf, bad. The stuff on my Pinterest board, awful. The shit in my Target cart, abominations. Why do I need to buy a whole new food processor when only the top is broken? Why is all my new Abercrombie loungewear already fraying after less than a year of ownership? (To be fair, I live in my sweatpants now, but come on!)
Still, there are a few purchases I made in 2020 that I don’t regret with the whole of my being. As I spent much of the past year completely disassociated, below are the purchases significant enough that I actually remembered them.
My Alphasmart Neo 2, $30ish
Well, this one’s easy. I’m working on a book (who isn’t), and this dated piece of technology has, I’m not joking, at least doubled my word count. I wrote 1500 words about why I love it so much, so you should go read that, but in short: for anyone who struggles to focus on their writing projects because of the enticing circus that is the…
