Year: 2025

  • Member Journal — 1/20/25

    Member Journal — 1/20/25

    This week: are you upgrading to be more productive, or are you upgrading for the sake of upgrading?

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  • Bleu de Chauffe Business Musette

    Bleu de Chauffe Business Musette

    Note: this item was provided for review.

    I have used, owned, and tested/reviewed loads of bags which fall into the general category of a ‘do it all day-to-day’ bag. Something large enough to take to the office, or to travel with, but also small enough you can generally take it anywhere with you. That’s a recipe which is ripe for compromise, and while I’ve liked a lot of the bags I have tried in this category, they tend to not stick very well over time — the compromises are almost always too great.

    And then I got the Bleu de Chauffe Business Musette in khaki. If you read my preview of the bag then you likely can already guess how good I think this bag is. But it’s so good, that it made the Best List for 2024 as the best all around bag, and that was with only a couple weeks of use. Sometimes you know, and with this bag, I can tell you with certainty: nothing else in this class comes close.

    It’s that good.

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  • Gear Report — 1/15/25

    Gear Report — 1/15/25

    This week: hats and gloves.

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  • Member Journal — 1/13/25

    Member Journal — 1/13/25

    This week: your RTO mandates and corporate greed.

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  • Member Journal — 1/6/25

    Member Journal — 1/6/25

    This week: note taking in 2025 — digital apps, and analog tools.

    It’s 2025 somehow, so that’s a thing all year apparently.

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  • Gear Report — 1/3/25

    Gear Report — 1/3/25

    This week: the new gear to start the year.

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