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Saturday: Connecticut via Midtown

Ippodo Tea

Kinokuniya

Dinner w/ Wei

Sunday: Queens via East Village

“What makes Black Seed bagels special is their texture — combining the soft, chewy New York-style with the dense, crispy Montreal-style”

Coffee @ Abraço

Creative Little Garden

“Akari: Sculpture by Other Means occupies the Museum’s second-floor galleries. It includes several installations that allow visitors to experience ways that Isamu Noguchi’s Akari—a modular ecosystem of lightweight, collapsible paper lanterns—can create and transform space”

Monday: Brooklyn

Breakfast @ Okonomi

Green Wood Cemetery

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BOS this time (& next time)

Boston was even better than I remembered

> Public Library (see above)

> Champagne @ Newsfeed Café

> Harvard Book Store – Maggie Nelson – Something Bright

Next time looking forward to

> Grolier Poetry Book Shop (closed on Monday)

> Coffee Date @ Thinking Cup

> MIT Holography Exhibit

last yr yvr

post wedding hipsterland traversal

i++ chinese garden
i++ milano coffee
i++ fife bakery
i++ savio volpe – chicken!
i++ chicha
i++ dynasty seafood
i++ burdock & co
i++ nineteen ten

BOS coming up

Looking forward to BOS including one day in Cambridge

> Carpenter Center for Visual Arts (above) – “inverted version of Villa Savoye embodying the Five Points of Architecture on the exterior of the building rather than within like Villa Savoye”

> Coffee Date @ Tatte Bakery

> Eat @ Alden & Harlow – Secret Secret Burger

grateful (COUNT=1560)

i++ washi tape from muji

i++ lunch with mum + dad + james @ congee queen

i++ lunch with audrey + sharon + carl @ wickson social

i++ lunch with jess + nimmie + christina @ pai

i++ lunch with steven @ fune

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new year >>> new goals

Hot Pot Party with Sariphen (Sari + Stephen) and Benise (Benny + Denise) and we talked about Marshall Goldsmith’s “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There”, a book that Stephen gifted us a few years ago.

The following were identified as potential areas for improvement for me
1. Winning too much
2. Adding too much value
3. Passing judgment

And I have decided to work on #2 (adding too much value). James said he is used to #1 (i.e. my constant attempt to optimize things that may not need to be optimized). James also said the main manifestation of #3 for me is #2 (i.e. I judge other people by telling them that my way is better).

James is going to help me track this using my new calendar from The Regional Assembly of Text.

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non-disruptive innovation is underrated

About half the buildings in Wuzhen are surviving historic structures; a third have been renovated or largely rebuilt using reclaimed historic materials gleaned, typically, from cleared sites in Shanghai; and the rest of the tableau – most obviously in the form of hotels – is newly built.

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