Defector Funbag: Physical Keyboards, Bunk Beds, and Working From Home
By
Drew Magary
If you only eat one bagel today, this is the bagel.
Summary
This is a weekly edition of the Defector Funbag, a reader mailbag column. Topics include whether the author would go back to a phone with a physical keyboard (nostalgia for Samsung Sidekicks but no), bunk beds, working from home, good moms, undershirts, and various other reader-submitted questions and musings. The tone is conversational, humorous, and informal.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledThe only way I go back to a phone like that is if, at long last, the tech industry pioneers a smartphone killer.
Let's Remember Some Samsung Sidekicks.
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