Patchwork
David BerthyPatchwork is a semi-regular dispatch about patchy futures, fading memories, and new fascinations.
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Patch #35: You don't know if you don't go
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You don’t set out with any kind of precision. Your ideas are abstract, half-formed, free of any semblance of what it would actually take to sherpa small children to the top of a 10,000 foot mountain and send the...
Patch #34: Dead water
For perhaps the first time in my life I appreciated the corrosive effects of total uncertainty. And it was something I could use, if I survived to use it.
John D. MacDonald
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There are twenty-one Travis McGee...
Patch #33: Ghost prices
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In mid-January of 2025, a rush of arctic air blew into the mountain west, dropping the windchill far below zero and driving social media sorts to go outside and throw boiling water into the air so we coul...
Patch #32: Loud quiet loud
I started noticing the Nirvana T-shirts in Costa Rica. The first was worn by a woman in her late twenties, at a place my kids called the Gato Bar. That wasn’t really the name of the bar. My kids called it that because the first time we went...
Patch #31: The big small stores of the future
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1. Fast Times at Ridgemont Mall
A few weeks ago, I re-watched the 1983 movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High. The film, set in a fictional high school, reflected the real-...
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Futures at Salesforce. IDEO alum. Especially fascinated with the past, present, and future of fiction, music, collaboration, design, nature, technology, and the Rocky Mountain West.
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