Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- Has dopamine got us hooked on tech?
- What’s Left at Comedy Central?
- How Tiny Red Dots Took Over Your Life
- Live by the algorithm, die by the algorithm: How LittleThings went from social publishing darling to shutting down
- The great big Spotify scam
- Is Facebook killing online comedy?
- HQ Trivia Is Dictating When and How Consumers Use Apps and Inspiring a Host of Imitators
- What If This Was Peak Media?
Reference points:
- You Are The Media You Eat
- Six degrees of Wikipedia
- From Energy To Transport To Healthcare, Here Are 8 Industries Being Disrupted By Elon Musk And His Companies
- The Responsive Network
- 10 breakthrough technologies 2018
Longer reads:
- The story of the internet, as told by Know Your Meme
- Design’s Lost Generation
- Is the ‘Digital Nomad’ Life as Good as It Sounds?
- What Amazon Does to Poor Cities
- Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself
- The Greatest Hits of Binet & Field
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
- Babies Video Chat with Each Other
- The Hidden Formula Behind Almost Every Joke on Late Night
- One Way To Deconstruct There Will Be Blood — Or Any Movie
- The world’s darkest building is at the 2018 Olympics
- Throwing a Needle Through Glass in Slow Motion
- Jason Voorhees Found at Camp Crystal Lake
- Whoever Designed This Cheat Sheet Eraser Is A Genius
- This kid always goes into statue mode when he gets in trouble
Things to look at/read:
- A Complete History of Happy-Slapping
- A Deep Dive Into ‘Celebs Go Dating’, The Greatest Show on British TV
- No, Fascism Can’t Happen Here
- Yes, bacon really is killing us
- This Is Why Michael B. Jordan Is So Hot
- Go Ahead, Millennials, Destroy Us
- Pop art
Animal corner:
- Funny parrot stomping around like its mad
- Well, Where Else Would You Put the Umbrella?
- Husky fur removing
- I’m, er, not sure it’s working
- it’s called soft crossfit and it’s going really well thank you
- Can’t believe nala just gave 3 year old buddy the British bulldog her half of the biscuit they both shared. In full tears
Tweets of the week:
- Just got word that I can finally share my rejected theme song from @readyplayerone.
- i always wonder why twitter is free when it blesses us with moments like this
- Quite simply the best ‘snowman’ I’ve ever seen
- expectation vs. reality
- seems fine
- Probably the best thing you will see on the internet today
- Here’s my definitive turtleneck alignment chart
Part 3: For the weekend
Longer reads:
- The male glance: how we fail to take women’s stories seriously
- What Is the Perfect Color Worth?
- Is the British establishment finally finished?
- What Ever Happened To Brendan Fraser?
- Jerry and Marge Go Large
- The poison we pick
- Jordan Peterson’s gospel of masculinity
- Monica Lewinsky: Emerging from the “house of gaslight” in the age of #metoo
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