Modest Operations | Newsletter Volume 19

I was really surprised (in a good way!) by the outpouring of support I saw last week for those affected by the StyleHaul shutdown. I made a LinkedIn post where I asked for folks to comment if they were hiring, and received a bunch of posts from some incredibly cool companies (even from people I wasn't connected to!). 

If you (or someone you know) are hiring, please leave a comment there so the right people can find it.

On the home front, Sarah and I are gearing up to make a cross-town move, which is stressful and exciting and everything in between. If you're looking to buy a house on the East Side of Los Angeles, get in touch. ;) 

Have a great week,

This Week's Links A list of things I've been reading & thinking about.* "I think I am more agnostic than atheist because I don't know. I believe in magic. I believe in superstition. I believe in different things that I don't understand and things I just don't know. But, for sure, if there is something after this, it's not this." - Artist Tom Sachs on Sex, Sleep, Nike, and Outer Space (Mark Anthony Green for GQ) * "Here is photography’s ultimate irony: it can freeze time, but never stop it." - Lee Friedlander’s Intimate Portraits of His Wife, Through Sixty Years of Marriage (Chris Wiley for The New Yorker) * "Frasi didn’t have any e-commerce to speak of – to buy anything, you had to visit the brick-and-mortar in Florence. But its closure is an opportunity to talk about something I’ve been thinking about for a while: the importance of supporting companies that add value to your life, even if those benefits aren’t fully captured in the products and services you're receiving." - Support Stores That Bring You Value (Derek Guy for Die, Workwear!) * "Shen Yun was a Baader-Meinhof object: once I saw it, I started to see it everywhere. Shen Yun greeted me silently at the bus stop and loomed over highway exits, following me around on the physical plane of existence the way anything you shop for on the Internet starts to follow you around online." - Stepping Into the Uncanny, Unsettling World of Shen Yun (Jia Tolentino for The New Yorker) * "Like many good things, the internet started out small." - 👀 Noticing: Sharing 10 Good Things on the Internet This Week. 3/29/2019 (Tim Carmody for Noticing)