The Upper Middle Archive

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Lipstick on a Cig → Too Dumb To Fai l→

November 7, 2024

The argument contained in the image – a few Wojacks (sketchy strawman sub-memes) arrayed against an IQ bell curve – is that morons and geniuses gravitate toward simplicity while “midwits,” particularly status conscious midwits, fetishize complexity and thereby create big, dumb unwieldy systems.

Lipstick on a Cig → Too Dumb To Fai l→

November 7, 2024

The argument contained in the image – a few Wojacks (sketchy strawman sub-memes) arrayed against an IQ bell curve – is that morons and geniuses gravitate toward simplicity while “midwits,” particularly status conscious midwits, fetishize complexity and thereby create big, dumb unwieldy systems.

Lipstick on a Cig → Too Dumb To Fai l→

November 7, 2024

The argument contained in the image – a few Wojacks (sketchy strawman sub-memes) arrayed against an IQ bell curve – is that morons and geniuses gravitate toward simplicity while “midwits,” particularly status conscious midwits, fetishize complexity and thereby create big, dumb unwieldy systems.

Huge Imposition → Market Pop → Kornackikhaki

November 5, 2024

“Economic data is often collected at the household level, which obscures some of these bargaining dynamics, but what we find is that financial decisions incorporate 60% of husbands’ preferences and 40% of wives’ preferences. Couples’ money is invested in a manner at odds with women’s risk preferences.”

5-Sec Costumes → Office Parkour →

October 31, 2024

“The Greenwich American Center, a 589,784-square-foot brutalist semi-masterpiece by Gordon Bunshaft, sits on an unraked campus of dredged lakes and graded hills across the highway from a cluster of four-bedroom colonials. It has been a bit empty since Disney folded Blue Sky Studios (the animators behind Scrat the sisyphean squirrel). Quiet? Sure. Depressing? No. Practical.“

Quarter-Zip Foul → Marthello →

October 29, 2024

“Martha Stewart sold the place for $6.7M – money she didn’t particularly need. No museum. No marker. There’s now a Lexus dealership around the corner not far from the Crate and Barrel and a bit of a hike from the HomeGoods.“

Radical Chic 2.0 → The Kerhamptons →

October 24, 2024

“Tom Wolfe’s work rankled Bernstein to the end – largely because the writer embarrassed his wife, which was kind of his whole thing – but when a hearse schlepped his still-warm body from Manhattan to Green-Wood Cemetery in 1990, the city stopped to say goodbye. Famously, construction workers took off their helmets. They knew the difference between a bad look and a bad person.“

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