Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- Netflix’s aggressive content-buying spree creates opportunities and risk for creators
- Non-tech businesses are beginning to use artificial intelligence at scale
- Unplugging From the Internet Nearly Destroyed Me
- What Are Screens Doing to Our Eyes—and Our Ability to See?
- Netflix Pulls Out of Cannes Following Rule Change
Reference points:
Longer reads:
- A Reckoning with Reality (TV)
- Why Good People Turn Bad Online
- Good Game Well Played: The Story of the Staying Power of ‘StarCraft’
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
- Black Mirror — Now Entering the Twilight Zone
- The Audience Response Duplicator
- The philharmonic turntable orchestra
- Anatomy Of A ‘Fast And Furious’ Chase Scene
- Rusted butcher’s knife – Impossible Restoration
- The smallest sushi on earth
- World’s fastest clapper
Things to look at/read:
- This Guy Was Banned From A Hotel For 17 Years For An Incident Involving Hungry Seagulls And A Suitcase Full Of Pepperoni
- Self-storage: How warehouses for personal junk became a $38 billion industry
- America’s gender-fluid future, in 100 years of baby name trends
- A complete guide to the cinematic references and inspirations of Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Animal corner:
- Husky Einstein puppy howl
- Protective Baby Rhino Guards Mother During Toe Treatment
- “i’ve got what i want, I’ll wait in the car”
Tweets of the week:
- me: hi do you guys have- urban outfitters employees:
- Come on man
- “don’t forget to drink the water, humans like water”
- I unironically love this joke.
- When the bus driver sets off before you’ve sat down
- Her name was…. it never suited her
- My kids gonna learn today
- Roses are red *unintelligible grunts*
Part 3: For the weekend
Longer reads:
- ‘God Made Me Black on Purpose’
- There’s Something Funny About Tiffany Haddish
- The world’s best hitchhiker on the secrets of his success
- Why I’m suing over my dream internship
- “Whatever’s your darkest question, you can ask me.”
- It’s New To You
- The legacy of childhood trauma
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