Gonna do a different decade review: look back on Amazon orders and share 1 thing per year.
2009: I bought an hourglass which I’ve now owned for a decade. Used it to run a writing group in DC
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2011: 100 padded mailers! To mail out copies of Tempo I think
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2012: Pentax binoculars which I later gave to my mom and bought another pair for myself amazon.com/gp/product/B00
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2013: Pressure cooker to replace the one I’d had since grad school/1997 and ruined by accidentally heating without water in it amazon.com/gp/product/B00
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2014: Receipt folder as I upgraded corporate receipt management game from “shoebox” in a fit of enthusiasm (now back to not-even-a-shoebox) amazon.com/gp/product/B00
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2015: Only bought books. Here’s an interesting one. amazon.com/gp/product/082
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2016: Again only books, Asimov complete robot to reread. amazon.com/gp/product/058
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2017: Only bought 2 things, one of them being this Goodfellow Deep Learning textbook, for the Q Lab slack-based consulting thing I was doing then. Study group idea. Never cracked it open. Passed it on to smart niece starting grad school at MIT amazon.com/gp/product/026
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2018: Jomny Sun book amazon.com/gp/product/006
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2019: wooden pendulum clock construction kit. Supposed to be my holiday project but then 🤧 happened
amazon.com/dp/B07HSZ9LYJ/
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As a consumer I’m clearly a spectacularly uninteresting and low volume person. I hate shopping and wife has gradually taken over all shopping over the last decade.
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In the 2020s I resolve to be a more engaged consumer who increases volume, velocity, and variety of things I buy.
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