🎅 2023 Holiday Gift Guide

Here are a few gift ideas that caught my eye this year:

Tech

• Fairphone. As sustainably produced as a smartphone can be.
• Boox Palma epaper phone
• 8BitDo Retro Mechanical Keyboard
• MelGeek Pixel keyboard. A customizable keyboard.
• LEGO Ideas Typewriter. A fully functional typewriter you build yourself.
• Ether Anti-Radio V2
• Pomo website blocker tool. To be released.

Food and Cooking

• J. Street Chocolate
• Lucky Dog Sake Juice Box
• Awesome Coffee Club subscription. Coffee for a cause.
• Kenji’s wood wok spatula
• Sistema Microwave Rice Cooker

Apparel

• Japanese baseball caps
• Books cap
• Audubon Society apparel
• Darn Tough socks

Fun and Games

• Playdate, Analogue, Retroid Pocket. All handheld play systems.
• Votes for Women. A board game.
• Waypoints. A game you can print at home.
• Puzzmo subscription
• 99 Movie Crosswords. Made by A24.

Read and Write

• Unsolicited Advice 52-Week Planner
• Planners from Present and Correct
• The Halfliner. A simple, clean, and portable baseball scorebook.
• Lists of Lists of Lists Wikipedia. A zine paying homage to my favorite Wikipedia article.
• Monocle subscription

Books

• Do Interesting: Notice. Collect. Share.
• Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook
• A Very Chinese Cookbook
• The Pillow Book. The personal notes of a court gentlewoman in tenth-century Japan.
• The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
• What an Owl Knows
• The Iliad. A new translation of Homer’s classic.
• Engineering in Plain Sight
• Prairie Up: An Introduction to Natural Garden Design