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  1. Richard Lee15 Feb 2025
    The inbox is the blog

    Why this site pretends to be an email client — and what that buys a reader who just wants to know what they haven’t seen yet.

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  2. Richard Lee29 Jul 2026
    Why can't mine look like that?

    My video's subtitles were boring. John Wick's aren't. What came back wasn't a one-shot — it was a lab.

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  3. Richard Lee5 Jul 2026
    Field notes: a summer week in Seoul

    Humidity, convenience-store coffee, and the particular quiet of a city that never quite turns off.

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  4. Richard Lee28 May 2026
    The Office Chair is the bottleneck

    A five-hour session window tiles the day and drifts. A nine-to-six chair catches one whole window a day — never two. So I stopped letting the chair decide.

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  5. Richard Lee1 Mar 2026
    I wish I minored in Marketing

    Engineer to engineer is easy. Product is harder, leadership harder still, and outside the company hardest of all. An ad is a year of work compressed for someone who owes you nothing.

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  6. Richard Lee4 Dec 2025
    Field notes: first winter in Seoul

    Sandals to boots. Gloves with the fingertips cut out. Snow that lands in your hair and just stays there. A walk home, in eight beats.

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  7. Richard Lee21 Sep 2025
    On subtraction

    The best edit is usually a deletion. A short argument for building — and writing — by removal.

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  8. Richard Lee30 May 2025
    Tell me everything that could go wrong

    You go to amazon.com and get the dinosaur game instead — what's wrong? My best answer took three minutes. The question took an hour.

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