decisions
What the first quote came back at
Higher than I planned for, in the places I expected, and one place I didn't.
The Warm-Up · twice weekly
Letters from the middle of making it.
Not a blog and not marketing. Two short letters a week about what actually happened — the samples that came back wrong, the quotes that came in high, the decisions I'm not sure about. Every one of these was an email first.
- field-notes
A box of glass beads
Two kilograms of micro-beads arrived and I've spent the afternoon pouring them between containers like a child.
- community
Which one should we make first?
Four fruit, one first production run. I had an opinion, and then I talked myself out of it.
- build
Fabric samples, round one
Eleven swatches from four suppliers. Two are good, one is very good and too expensive, and one shed on my hands.
- decisions
The 57 °C problem
A week with a thermocouple and a pile of competitor products, and the argument it started for taking the electronics out entirely.
- letters
Why I started this
A hot water bottle that went cold at 2am, and a category that nobody had bothered to design for grown-ups.
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