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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