Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- TikTok, explained
- The dark side of gamifying work
- All Good Magazines Go to Heaven
- A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley
- On Instagram, 11,696 Examples of How Hate Thrives on Social Media
- A generation of digital media darlings prepare for a frigid winter
- Apple News’s Radical Approach: Humans Over Machines
- Thousands Of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips Under Their Skin
Reference points:
- Population mountains
- Why Instagram Is the Worst Social Media for Mental Health
- 52 things I learned in 2018
Longer reads:
- The future 100: 2019
- Your apps know where you were last night, and they’re not keeping it secret
- The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in your startup’s metrics
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
- Nic Cage | Mega Mix One
- What Happens When A Movie Has No Script Supervisor?
- Thieves Caught and Confronted by Doorbell Camera
- Baby Meets A Woman With The Same Limb Difference, Promptly Engulfs Her In A Big Hug
- There’s Bad Driving, And Then There Are Absolute Trainwrecks Like This
Things to look at/read:
- The cube rule of food identification
- Kevin Hart’s Oscars controversy feeds the stereotype of the black homophobe
- A Soap Label To Save The World From Future Hitlers
- Mark, My Words: rock stars, stop lowering yourselves to mainstream TV humiliation
- The perils of sharing a name with someone very, very famous
- The Humanification of Pet Food Is Nearly Complete
Animal corner:
- Stick, Snake or caterpillar?
- Funny and Cute French Bulldog Escapes From Kitchen
- Cannae stop laughing at the dug in his Christmas outfit hahahahahahaha
- Skyping with ur parents
- Just a reminder that your favorite breakfast food enjoys gentle baths.
Tweets of the week:
- Another absolute corker of a correction in today’s Guardian.
- Fam I’m dead
- This was actually Jack’s original pitch for this website
- Perspective matters …
- Just why?
- Who needs subs? Julia Roberts, that’s who!
- Put together Theresa May’s Best Bits in the style of her getting evicted from Big Brother
- Sad news for fans of the Muppets.
Part 3: For the weekend
Longer reads:
- My Life Cleanse: One Month Inside L.A.’s Cult of Betterness
- The Glorious Madness of Japanese Dodge Van Racing
- The myth of whiteness in classical sculpture
- Welcome to the Petty Hall of Fame
- The Insect Apocalypse Is Here
- The unsolved murder of an unusual billionaire
- How I Accidentally Wound Up Running an Outlaw Biker Gang in Ohio
- Tommy Robinson and the far right’s new playbook
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