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      <title><![CDATA[Why Some Objects Feel Like They Have Already Lived a Life]]></title>
      <link>https://theworkingarchive.com/entries/why-some-objects-feel-like-they-have-already-lived-a-life</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[OBJECTS]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[Some things arrive in your life already feeling like they belong to it. I have been trying to work out what they have in common.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Wooden Mug and the Life I Imagined]]></title>
      <link>https://theworkingarchive.com/entries/a-wooden-mug-and-the-life-i-imagined</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[MEMORY]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[I bought a wooden mug from a man who made maybe six of them a month. Then I spent a week noticing what I had actually bought.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Problem With Things That Look Premium]]></title>
      <link>https://theworkingarchive.com/entries/the-problem-with-things-that-look-premium</link>
      <guid>https://theworkingarchive.com/entries/the-problem-with-things-that-look-premium</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[BUILDING ECOAND]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[We spent three weeks making our bottle look more expensive. Then a shop owner asked a question that undid all of it.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Rain on an Empty Shanghai Street]]></title>
      <link>https://theworkingarchive.com/entries/rain-on-an-empty-shanghai-street</link>
      <guid>https://theworkingarchive.com/entries/rain-on-an-empty-shanghai-street</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[PHOTOGRAPHY]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[For about ten minutes the street emptied completely, and I got the photograph and a conversation I didn't expect.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Beef Soup I Will Make Again]]></title>
      <link>https://theworkingarchive.com/entries/the-beef-soup-i-will-make-again</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[FOOD]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[A bowl of beef noodle soup from a shop with no name, reverse-engineered over three attempts. The third attempt goes in the archive.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[What a Customer Said at the Sink]]></title>
      <link>https://theworkingarchive.com/entries/what-a-customer-said-at-the-sink</link>
      <guid>https://theworkingarchive.com/entries/what-a-customer-said-at-the-sink</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[BUILDING ECOAND]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[We were installing a refill station and a customer said one sentence that reorganized how I think about the entire company.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Basketball Courts at Closing Time]]></title>
      <link>https://theworkingarchive.com/entries/basketball-courts-at-closing-time</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[BASKETBALL]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[The lights at the community centre court turn off at nine. The last twenty minutes are a specific place that exists nowhere else.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Notes on Airports I Have Slept In]]></title>
      <link>https://theworkingarchive.com/entries/notes-on-airports-i-have-slept-in</link>
      <guid>https://theworkingarchive.com/entries/notes-on-airports-i-have-slept-in</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[PLACES]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[A field guide compiled at Gate 23 at 3:40 in the morning, by someone using a backpack as a pillow.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Smell of My Grandmother's Kitchen]]></title>
      <link>https://theworkingarchive.com/entries/the-smell-of-my-grandmothers-kitchen</link>
      <guid>https://theworkingarchive.com/entries/the-smell-of-my-grandmothers-kitchen</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[MEMORY]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[I have been trying to describe one specific smell for two years, partly for a scent project and mostly for myself.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Question I Keep Not Answering]]></title>
      <link>https://theworkingarchive.com/entries/a-question-i-keep-not-answering</link>
      <guid>https://theworkingarchive.com/entries/a-question-i-keep-not-answering</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[QUESTIONS]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[Filed here so it stops circling the apartment. A note to self about the size a thing is supposed to be.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Oldest File in the Archive]]></title>
      <link>https://theworkingarchive.com/entries/the-oldest-file-in-the-archive</link>
      <guid>https://theworkingarchive.com/entries/the-oldest-file-in-the-archive</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[PHOTOGRAPHY]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[P1010031.JPG, taken in 2005 on the family camera, mostly by accident. On why the worst photograph I own might be the most valuable.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Vegetable Stall That Opens Before the Sun]]></title>
      <link>https://theworkingarchive.com/entries/the-vegetable-stall-that-opens-before-the-sun</link>
      <guid>https://theworkingarchive.com/entries/the-vegetable-stall-that-opens-before-the-sun</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[OBSERVATIONS]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[Notes from the 5:50 am shift at the wet market near my apartment, where the real economy of the neighborhood happens before I am usually conscious.]]></description>
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