{"id":341,"date":"2024-04-02T10:13:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T08:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/?p=341"},"modified":"2024-04-02T10:15:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T08:15:04","slug":"edc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/edc\/","title":{"rendered":"EDC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Looking around for a new backpack, I fell down the rabbit hole of Every Day Carry<\/em> (EDC). It was simultaneously nice to get into a new product category, with all the enthousiasm for good design that comes with it, and kind of troubling to discover how consumption-oriented this supposedly minimalism-loving subculture is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s all men. And even though everyone is super particular about their water bottle and having the correct pouch for it, no-one seems to be carrying any food. No lunch boxes. Let alone fruit. When you search for ‘EDC fruit’ all you get is knives!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The size of these ‘everyday carry’ collections also seems to be based on a car commute. Huge bags with a lot<\/em> of stuff…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After watching countless videos of people zipping up pouches and tetrissing everything into a bag just right<\/em>, everything in its proper place, I did get that same feeling as I sometimes get from reading a good novel that really puts you into a different world and atmosphere. Zipping up my headphone carrying case and dropping it into my old backpack, I suddenly noticed how viscerally pleasing that can be. It suddenly clicked why you’d spend so much effort thinking about the way you carry and store your everyday stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also got another familiar feeling, though. Something I notice at work, with engineering. The feeling of being interested in\/enthousiastic about the same thing as an existing community on the surface<\/em> but noticing a fundamental difference in values that makes me not want to be a part of the club…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looking around for a new backpack, I fell down the rabbit hole of Every Day Carry (EDC). It was simultaneously nice to get into a new product category, with all the enthousiasm for good design that comes with it, and kind of troubling to discover how consumption-oriented this supposedly minimalism-loving subculture is. It’s all men. … Continue reading EDC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[40,39,38],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-consumerism","tag-edc","tag-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}