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Soulver has long been one of my favorite little apps. I’ve been using an ancient version on my iPhone, as they never released version 3 for iPhone (only Mac and iPad).

Until now.

Soulver 3 is now available on the iPhone. It has a 30 day trial, and a one-time $14 purchase.

I’m pumped, instant buy.

Even my favorite Hunter 2.0 model is on sale. These are all I wear now simple because of the comfort for wearing them for long stretches of time.

Check the sale. 

The Hunting and Outdoor lineups are largely 25% off this weekend, and luckily Outdoor includes the Catalyst, District, and Scree series of bags. Code PRESIDENTSDAY25.

Shop here.

Matt Ruby, writing for his newsletter:

We’re still coming to terms with all the different ways pandemic broke us. Perhaps the most unsightly: It normalized employed men dressing like trash.

You need to read the entire thing before you assume you know what will be said. It’s fast and fun to read. And it’s 100% true.

His comments on SBF, basketball/football coaches. Attire in the airports. Attire in tech. It’s all so very true, and very sad. When you dress well, you feel great. Sometimes you should dress well out of respect for something: the recently deceased; the institution; or the date you want to like you. Other times you should dress well out of respect for yourself.

And dressing well doesn’t mean being uncomfortable. I know you remember it being that way, but that’s likely because the clothing didn’t fit well, or was of low quality. Dressing well also doesn’t mean spending loads of money. But, other people can help you sort that out.

I don’t want to over promise here, but Steve and I are ramping back up our writing over on Everyday Wear. A lot of smaller things going on, so if you forgot this site existed, hop on over.

I recently wrote up: Proper Cloth’s Reda Merino fabric; Relwen’s Flyweight Flex Blazer; White’s Perry Boots; and did another undershirt round up. Steve also wrote up Filson’s Draftsman chinos, which I am a big fan of as well.

We’ve got a bunch more to come. So stay tuned.

Of course, Steve and I don’t focus on fashion and style, so to cover that edge of the spectrum, I recommend A Well Worn Dispatch.

Bruce is a legend (and friend) in the Brooks Review Discord for many things, but especially for his style advice he gives us on a near daily basis. He launched a newsletter sharing this advice with his first post ‘The Upgrade Shirt’ — it is fantastic. I bought two shirts per his advice.

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And I’ve dropped the price on all of them.

Chris on his Chris Notes blog, writing about his Digital Notetaking Stack:

One of the most important parts of my setup is my intake app. I hope you’ve never had to experience this feeling:

Your friend names a cool restaurant or book for you to look up later. You hastily pull up your notes app to write it down. But wait. Where should you make the note? Does restaurant fall under your travel folder? Or your food folder? What should you title it? Do you need to make a new folder? While you’re fiddling with your app your friend has already started talking about that other boba place you should explore. Should that go in a whole other note? Oh god.

I feel like a lot of people give up after going through this a couple times and their notes app just ends up being a hodge-podge of unorganized, random shit that they dread looking back at later.

I’ve been deep into information processing tools the last few weeks. Partly because of work stuff, partly because of the overall activity in the space. Information processing is my catch all for the stack of intaking new things, making use of them/actioning, and then storing and maintaining them. Chris’ above thought on the intake being the most important part resonates with me.

So many of the tools today are just not at all simple. They are complex and overbearing. I’ve gone deep on a lot of the PKM utter-useless-nonsense out there and the offshoot tools created for it. Waste of time. Obsidian feels like that for me as well, but Chris’ use he details in the linked post seems rather sane and logical to me — dare I say, I like it.

But his system also mirrors mine in a lot of ways: paper + efficient digital tools. I’ll write more about my setup in the coming months. But give Chris’ post a read, it’s one of the best how-to/getting started guides I’ve read on this stuff.

A bunch of solid offerings, 40% off right now from Filson. Buying through that link helps me buy through that link and such. I love the Filson flannel shirts, and suggest everyone owns one. They run wide, I fit a Medium, X-Long perfectly, whereas generally it’s a Large most places (which also fits there, but wears a little boxy on me).