Friends with Benefits
But as I sat on the dark hardwood floor of our newly rented house in the quiet suburbs on a warm Friday evening, my focus wasn't on corporate scaling.
The living room was an unoptimized landscape of half-emptied moving boxes, scattered architectural Digests, and unrolled sketching paper. The overhead tracking lights were switched off, leaving only the soft, amber luminescence of a jasmine-scented candle on the floorboards and the deep violet gradient of the twilight sky bleeding through the open glass doors.
I was holding a piece of thick, handmade cotton cardstock and a fountain pen, carefully drawing clean, black vector lines.
"If that is a midnight structural amendment for the municipal d