Perspectives
Long-form pieces on the topics that shape how you choose a bag. Honest takes that go beyond the spec sheet.
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long-form takes
Most anti-theft features are designed to look secure, not to be secure.
Read article →Price predicts quality at the extremes and lies reliably in the middle.
Read article →The bag is the invisible infrastructure of your day.
Read article →Those are different things, and they have been confused for so long that the confusion has become tradition.
Read article →"Airline carry-on compliant" is a measurement comparison, not a boarding pass.
Read article →The useful part of EDC is the noticing. The hobby part is the optimizing.
Read article →Your instinct about bag weight is valid. It might also be misleading you.
Read article →Most bag reviews are overviews. Knowing the difference changes what you take from them.
Read article →It sounds like insurance. It is not insurance.
Read article →The community calls it a philosophy. Half the time it is the right answer.
Read article →More pockets is not better organization. It's more places to make the same mistake.
Read article →The most sustainable bag you can buy is one that already exists.
Read article →A community exists where the logical endpoint is a custom bag from a one-person workshop. That is not a hobby. It is an industry confession.
Read article →The purse solved a problem the clothing industry created. That's not the same as being the right solution.
Read article →Not a defect. A decision. And one the bag lives with for its entire life.
Read article →Not a better backpack. A different object.
Read article →"Waterproof" on a backpack almost never means what you think it means.
Read article →What is actually wrong with the bag you have? Most problems have a $40 fix.
Read article →Organization isn't a personality type. It's something you learned before you knew you were learning it.
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