Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- Good luck leaving your Uber driver less than five stars
- What smartphone photography is doing to our memories
- Facebook says its ‘voter button’ is good for turnout. But should the tech giant be nudging us at all?
- The rationalization of publishing
Reference points:
- I’m An Internet Writer, And I’m Tired Of This Ubiquitous Headline Formula
- How 50 Famous Female Characters Were Described in Their Screenplays
Longer reads:
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
- Mindhunter: A Game Called Dialogue
- The Cake Server
- nyoooooooooooom
- I built a PC out of rope and wood…
- NS 290 hits truck Temple
- Gummy Bears vs Molten Salt
- Why these all-white paintings are in museums and mine aren’t
- Baby laughing hysterically at pacifier noise
Things to look at/read:
- Doing Dishes Is the Worst
- Jaguars Literally Cannot Resist Calvin Klein’s ‘Obsession for Men’
- A’s free promotion highlights team’s struggle to draw paying fans
- The Lebowski Theorem of machine superintelligence
- If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance.
- Just Before Impact
- Let’s all obsess over this intricate map of alt-music history
Animal corner:
Tweets of the week:
- “we need to have a podcast together” is the millennial “dude, we should totally start a band”
- Tapas is more confident in Granada.
- “CHAI TEA IS REDUNDANT”
- Only this could happen to me, so I’m having a lovely cosy Netflix night… oh a voice note off someone I used to work with how nice… I am actually DEAD! It gets worse by the minute I’m done with life bye
- we’re building self-driving cars
- when you’re funny but ugly
- For any aspiring journalist wondering if they can affect real change…
- ???
Part 3: For the weekend
Longer reads:
- The dizzying story of Symphony of the Seas, the largest and most ambitious cruise ship ever built
- Is Francis Mallmann the most interesting chef in the world?
- The FBI Agent Who Can’t Stop Thinking About Waco
- Landlords Are Offering Young Men Free Rooms In Return For Sex And Facebook Is Letting It Happen
- Dwayne Johnson: The Pain and the Passion That Fuel the Rock
- The demise of the nation state
- The life and death of Homaro Cantu, the genius chef who wanted to change the world
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