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Field Notes is written by one person with a bicycle, a library card and a suspicion that the interesting things were here all along. No sponsors, no engagement strategy, no personal brand — just the old bargain: I'll look carefully, you read comfortably. The archive is free; the newsletter is how it stays that way.

The world is not short of wonders. It is short of witnesses.

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