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1.11.2019
a question

On Wednesday, I attended a fantastic Coffee Talk at the Ace Hotel in Chicago, hosted by my friends Kelsey and Mallory. This time around, Keewa Nurullah spoke about creative parenting while running her children's clothing business, Kido.

It sparked a question for me: in the evolution of parenting styles, we've clocked the following approaches in recent years...
  • Dad working, mom staying at home (let's call this the 1950s archetype)
  • Both parents working (October 2000, according to The New York Times)
  • Mom working, dad staying home (more accepted in the past two decades)
...but what I haven't read much about is *both parents at home, while also working.* For my co-working parents out there (here's looking at you, Stoffers), have you come across any interesting info on this subject? I smell a trend piece begging to be written. (Dibs, btw. Nobody steal my idea.)

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let's go.
at home
The woman who drew Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural sketches
(by Fred A. Bernstein for The New York Times)

 
Best line: “The specifics of Marion [Mahony’s] life fell victim to the primary scholarly effort to establish and fix the canon of ‘great men’ whose genius-personalities, buildings and texts would become central to the story of architecture."
How getting drunk while wearing underwear became the Finnish hygge
(by Miska Rantanen for The Guardian; illo by Phil Hackett)
 
Best line: "The Finnish path to happiness relies on ‘kalsarikänni’, a term that literally means ‘drinking at home, alone, in your underwear.’"
on the road
Best line: "These color schemes express the concept of utopia or ‘The Other Place,’ and differentiate the rooms from the common spaces that we live in every day."
Dive under the ice with the brave robots of Antarctica
(by Michele Koh Morollo for WIRED)
 
Best line: "Its mission is to unravel the mysteries of the polar seas, and as our climate descends further into chaos, SeaBED's mission is more urgent than ever."
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What I like: It's light, it rolls nicely, and the external battery—while ubiquitous in luggage these days—makes charging devices a breeze. I guess their smooth branding is working on me as intended.
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