Andrei Stoica

Talking through this, Erin and I got to thinking about a closely related issue: Who saves packaging anymore? Did your parents when you were growing up? Do they still? Do you?

For our community, the pandemic was an inflection point in the latent sense of disconnection that had been simmering for a generation. We awoke from the fever dream of Covid to find that the city had transformed around us, offering no shortage of trendy spaces to photograph a perfect matcha latte or sip a $25 dirty martini. But amid this abundance... See more

There are trends that I definitely participate in, but it’s nice to try to do it in your own way, instead of copy-pasting what you see online. This sounds really obvious, but a good starting place is picking celebrities/models/etc. with a similar body type or coloring as you, and copying their outfits in your own way. Google the person you’re... See more

4. Ever wonder about the vast universe of critically acclaimed aesthetic masterworks, most of which you do not really fathom? If you dismiss them, and mistrust the critics, odds are that you are wrong and they are right. You do not have the context to appreciate those works. That is fine, but no reason to dismiss that which you do not understand.... See more

“One needs to be happy alone before one can be happy with someone else.” No one in the film gives a care for this kind of sentiment. I don’t either, it strikes me as unreasonable, almost callous. Why shouldn’t you be unhappy alone? Nobody tells you that you need to be happy unemployed before you can find a job.

Perhaps the modern sentiment has a... See more

We’ve observed that some clever Foxes do masquerade as Hedgehogs, but not the other way around. Or perhaps, some Foxes merely admire the Hedgehog. Isaiah Berlin, in his great essay hypothesized that “Tolstoy was by nature a fox, but believed in being a hedgehog.”