Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- The Instagram Aesthetic Is Over
- Old, Online, And Fed On Lies: How An Aging Population Will Reshape The Internet
- Netflix’s Competitive Resiliency Is Here to Stay
- How Amazon automatically tracks and fires warehouse workers for ‘productivity’
- The Gentle Side of Twitch
- Paid Email Newsletters Are Proving Themselves As A Meaningful Revenue Generator For Writers
- After Autoplay: “Interactive, Personalized & Immersive” Entertainment
- It’s Time to Delete Your Tweets. It’s Not That Easy.
Reference points:
Longer reads:
- We Are Gen Z
- The golden age of YouTube is over
- Rom-Coms Were Corny and Retrograde. Why Do I Miss Them so Much?
- The world’s greatest delivery empire
- What Seven Years at Airbnb Taught Me About Building a Business
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
- Cleganebowl Hype Rising: Confirmed Edition ft. Bobby B
- How Lil Nas X Took ‘Old Town Road’ From TikTok Meme to No. 1
- Why the World’s Best Mathematicians Are Hoarding Chalk
- How Game of Thrones uses costumes to show power
- How are Underwater Structures Built?
- How My Makeup Looks Under a Microscope
- Absolutely Insane Drone Footage of Oklahoma Tornado
- How heavy metal and Satan gave us this sticker
Things to look at/read:
- James Charles, Tati Westbrook, and the feud that’s ripping apart YouTube’s beauty community
- When Did Celebrities Get So Bad At Taking Criticism?
- How the Hell Has Danielle Steel Managed to Write 179 Books?
- The VICE Alternative Team of the Premier League Season 2018-2019
- Your cotton tote is pretty much the worst replacement for a plastic bag
- A Man Created An Instagram About Church Leaders In Expensive Designer Shoes. It’s Sending People Down An Existential Morality Spiral.
- Listen up bitches, it’s time to learn incorrect things about someone you’ve never heard of
- The DMV Reviewed Thousands of Hilarious Vanity Plate Applications Last Year. These Are Our Favorites
Animal corner:
- Doggie School Bus picks up pups for ‘school’
- Doggy Devours Drink
- Parenting tips from the cat…
- He’s so grateful
- These gorillas try to wait out the rain before making a run for it. Sometimes animal kingdom is just like us.
Tweets of the week:
- Just me or is this one helluva high five?
- Very much enjoyed this poster in the loos of my local last night.
- Things I have learned about the general public whilst working at the library:
- Hey @bt_uk we’ve just spent a £1 updating our logo to be just like yours.
- “We don’t have balls. But we know how to use them!”
- Squad goals.
- Here Lies Brad, who died of Brad.
- I see everyone has found my man Bigtime Tommie, who is responsible for the greatest piece of television ever created
Part 3: For the weekend
Longer reads:
- The Company That Sells Love to America Had a Dark Secret
- My Search for a Boyhood Friend Led to a Dark Discovery
- The heavy metal grifter
- Fifty shades of white: the long fight against racism in romance novels
- What’s Behind the Elective-Sobriety Trend
- Virgil Abloh, menswear’s biggest star
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