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John Telfer
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Jul 2, 2018

Knocking on Doors with Mormons

What I learned about sales going door-to-door with former missionaries — Door-to-door sales: It’s a job straight out of a bygone age—an age of picket fences and doorbells; an age of neighbors and trust in community; an age where a handshake meant something, by God. It’s a job that should be extinct in this world of shattered trust in others —…

Mormon

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Knocking on Doors with Mormons
Knocking on Doors with Mormons
Mormon

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May 9, 2018

I, (Your) Robot

Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the gig economy — 9:00 a.m. I’m lying on my couch with my eyes closed, being productive. A dirty bicycle waits by the door, eager for adventure. Silently, in an iPhone on the coffee table beside me, an app called Fleet is scanning the city. The app was launched by a San Francisco–based company called Postmates…

Gig Economy

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I Work a Gig Economy Job
I Work a Gig Economy Job
Gig Economy

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·Apr 19, 2018

How Getting a Houseplant Helped with My Divorce

When my plants thrived, the weight of my own grief began to lift — Two months after my wife left me, I found the baby palm tree. Biking home from the açai bowl restaurant where I work during the day, I had been mentally bracing myself for the too-familiar emptiness of the apartment when I saw the little guy. …

Gardening

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How Getting a Houseplant Helped with My Divorce
How Getting a Houseplant Helped with My Divorce
Gardening

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Feb 20, 2018

Why I Unfriended My Wife

For better or for worse in the time of social media — We met in college. She was cute, blonde, studied in the same theater program as I did, and loved to laugh. We stumbled home together one night — she in a pillowcase dress, me in a pair of trousers constructed from garbage bags — after an “ABC” (Anything But Clothes)…

Social Media

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Why I Unfriended My Wife
Why I Unfriended My Wife
Social Media

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John Telfer

John Telfer

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Jesus freak, writer and actor living in Los Angeles. Full-time thinker, part-time do-er.

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