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Field Notes: Ultralight Gear for the Ultralight Life
Practical
3-4 issues / month
$5/month
Field Notes: Ultralight Gear for the Ultralight Life by Ryan Jordan focuses on short but critical reviews of the lifestyle equipment and techniques, that I’m currently exploring, and using, on a daily basis.
Intended Audience
- Passionate souls interested in purchasing only the very best goods and services that contribute meaningfully and mindfully to their “ultralight” lifestyle.
What You Can Expect:
- There is less focus here on backcountry wilderness travel (but this context is not excluded when it has wider applicability) and more focus on the sorts of stuff, and ideas, and practices, that you might use every day.
Outdoor Gear & Apparel Design
Technical
1-2 issues/month
$25/month
The Outdoor Gear and Apparel Design Letter discusses the design philosophies, aesthetics, science, and engineering principles of equipment and apparel design in the context of maximizing performance-to-weight ratios.
Intended audience:
- Professional gear and apparel designers
- Organizational procurement managers
- Outfitters and outdoor educators
- Cottage industry manufacturers
- Serious make-your-own-gear enthusiasts
What you can expect:
- Critical evaluation of existing design standards and testing methodologies
- Reviews of gear and apparel focused on the relationship between product engineering and performance
- Practical manufacturing methods for high performance soft goods
- Practical manufacturing methods for high performance hard goods focusing on metals, plastics, and composites
- Research reviews of scientific literature that should drive your designs
Enrollment for this newsletter is temporarily closed. Because this letter involves a significant amount of back-and-forth interaction between me and the letter’s subscribers, I maintain a low subscription capacity. Subscriptions will be made available in the future as current subscribers cancel their subscriptions.
The Ultralight Life
Thoughtful
2-3 issues/month
$25/month
The Ultralight Life Letter straddles a wide chasm from internet technology to untouched wild places, and explores the deeper ramifications of living an ultralight life that desperately depends on both. This letter is not a casual discussion of bite sized take-me-homes that provide you with quick fixes to any of your problems, nor is it about trendy minimalism or simple living: Subscribe with discretion, discernment, commitment.
Intended Audience:
- Entrepreneurially-minded life- and work-style developers, researchers, and experimentalists, and people who want to be.
What you can expect:
- Deeply personal, and sometimes controversial essays that I won’t write about in public in order to preserve its intimate context.
- Philosophy and practicion for life- and work-style re-engineering.
- Discussions of singularities, edges, lex parsimoniae and related occams, ecological boundaries, and other heuristics that can be interpreted through life experiences.
Enrollment for this newsletter is temporarily closed. Because this letter involves a significant amount of back-and-forth interaction between me and the letter’s subscribers, I maintain a low subscription capacity. Subscriptions will be made available in the future as current subscribers cancel their subscriptions.