We Love the Internet 2019/01: The Technology, ranked edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The Bird Box Effect: How Memes Drive Users to Netflix
• The surprising fragility of a powerful perk: company culture
• Making Facebook a friend to your publishing business
• The Diminishing Marginal Value of Aesthetics
• Porn sites collect more user data than Netflix or Hulu. This is what they do with it.
• ‘It’s a double-edged sword’: How third-party sellers navigate Amazon’s marketplace amid changes
• Box Office Bomb: The Short Life of Popcorn Prediction Markets
• Why do so many animated films have great stories? One secret: storyboarding.

Reference points:

• Technology, Ranked
• The collection
• How to be an artist
• The 50 Worst Things On The Internet In 2018
• The most ratioed tweets of 2018
• The Biggest Tech Lies of 2018
• Public domain day 2019
• How I Quit Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon

Longer reads:

• Being bionic: how technology transformed my life
• How Mark Burnett resurrected Donald Trump as an icon of American success
• The Fresno Bee and the War on Local News
• The Great NFL Heist: How Fox Paid for and Changed Football Forever

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Making a Skate Video
• Guy Gets Packaged with Christmas Tree
• Vance’s Incredible 365-day transformation will blow you away
• Little Sister Devises An Absolutely Savage Prank To Get Her Brother
• This Guy Has Broken The Matrix
• Why widescreen feels epic
• World Record of the longest Urban Downhill Track | Race Run
• High-Rise Rope Dancing

Things to look at/read:

• In Defense of Puns
• An Exclusive First Taste of Lab-Made Whiskey
• A day in the life of Lloyd Squires, Vermont’s ‘best’ bagel maker
• Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’
• I used all the best stuff for a week and it nearly broke me
• I Used to Write for Sports Illustrated. Now I Deliver Packages for Amazon.
• Rent more than the runway: Why soon, you won’t own any clothes at all
• When Elon Musk Tunnels Under Your Home

Animal corner:

• 2 days of Cat vs. Automatic Feeder
• Cheetahs Are Completely And Utterly Baffled By Tortoise
• Guy Is Way Too Nonchalant About Petting A Wild Polar Bear
• All Goats Are Hungry, But This Goat Might Be The Hungriest Of Them All
• Did my dog just pet my cat?? And did my cat just hug my dog??
• Basically every time we eat dinner my dog starts bawling so we got her a chair so she could be included and she hasn’t cried since
• Walk into this mess and a ripped open cushion…. I wonder who done this..
• my aunt got a new puppy and sent us this video and I think I’ve watched it approximately 37 times

Tweets of the week:

• Holy shit Julia Roberts has gotta be like 8’6″?? Would love to see her dunk.
• HE MADE ANOTHER VIDEO OMG he’s on some mortal combat shit i’m living omg
• I’m sorry but is this a joke.
• 2019 energy.
• holy shit
• I gave my nephew a hot pickle since he was begging😂😂 this was his reaction….
• I hope your 2019 starts off better than this guy’s
• A series of unfortunate events

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• How to Date a Lot of Billionaires
• Elon & Mr. Musk: Life Inside Tesla’s Production Hell
• I Was A Cable Guy. I Saw The Worst Of America.
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus acts out
• Kelly Slater’s shock wave

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