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Emily's avatar

This might be helpful for you: https://www.nypl.org/locations (NYPL locations with w/services available at each). Brooklyn and Queens are on separate systems, but there are also some great options in those boroughs. Libraries are used pretty heavily in NYC, so it is sometimes a different experience than in other cities, but we have some great branches and amazing resources!!

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Anne's avatar

This is fun to read! Looking forward to more dispatches.

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lya's avatar

I want more of us to live like this. Just existing. Convenience isn't everything.

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Femcel's avatar

Please never stop writing. This is the kind of writing I crave to see, and the kind of world I want to occasionally step into and momentarily inhabit. I love what you're doing. Keep it up and rooting for you. You partially inspired me and a friend to go in together on getting dumb phones and living more analog in general and the first week has been spectacular.

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AKcidentalwriter's avatar

good luck. NYC apt. hunt is a brutal one.

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Isabelle Drury's avatar

pls write one of these every damn day

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Lotta's avatar

I thought you were in Paris, maybe I remember wrong.

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Rebecca's avatar

Just reading about your life without a smartphone or a laptop makes me feel like a less digital person. if that even makes sense??

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vester's avatar

Looking forward to the next post of this newsletter, I could imagine all the spots you describe in my head. It all feels like an adventure without an smartphone. Wishing you the best!

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davecuffe's avatar

I know I have probably missed earlier missives, but is selling your laptop a move to live more authentically or because you needed the money to eat? Or an idea for an article?

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Charlie's avatar

I was waiting for your update since seeing one of your Notes!😍 I’m also trying to detach from tech and realising it’s very hard to do without going cold turkey. Thanks for sharing your experience, rooting for you 🖤

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Sam Cross's avatar

I love, love, love this and look forward to the next one. Without time pressure. I understand you're working within certain limitations. BUT I LOVE THAT YOU'RE ALSO CONQUERING THEM - what a creative existence you're channeling / cultivating / curating.

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John Nez's avatar

I found it takes a lot of moxie to find an apartment in NYC.

I did it once… I just blogged about it.

I could never have done it on those fees they’re charging now… it was actually way more affordable when I found my little window on 78th St.

https://open.substack.com/pub/johnnez/p/joys-of-new-york-city?r=fcf9w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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teatablepoet's avatar

I wonder, do you learn from your journals- or do you perhaps introduce yourself to gut reactions-reeolving into an implicitly different perception of life?

Odd question I know, but I've been reading many modern and classic journals for the purpose of putting together a post of my own.

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with love, from molly <3's avatar

This is cool!!! I feel second hand stress listening to you apartment hunt

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Milena Baden's avatar

Reading this gives me the same feeling as books set in the 70s. I love how everything slows down around me when I follow you on your day

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