Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- The Future is Not What it Used to Be
- The push to break up Big Tech, explained
- Some Amazon Sellers Are Paying $10,000 A Month To Trick Their Way To The Top
- The Problem Isn’t Twitter. It’s That You Care About Twitter.
- An HBO Question Is Giving AT&T Executives a Headache
Reference points:
Longer reads:
- Adapt or Die: The Nature of Brand Strategy
- How the news took over reality
- Can an Art Collective Become the Disney of the Experience Economy?
- She was the “queen of the mommy bloggers.” Then her life fell apart.
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
- Hot Wheels Xylophone
- Manuel Schütz fast catch boomerang training
- The Bob Emergency: a study of athletes named Bob
- Danny Macaskill: Danny Daycare
- The truth behind the TV show Cops
- 4 Dopes and a Merry Go Round
- Can You Trust Kurzgesagt Videos?
- Robber Tries To Escape From A Window On 22nd Floor, Realizes He’s Not Jason Bourne
Things to look at/read:
- The Catastrophist, or: On coming out as trans at 37
- The Socialist Lavatory League
- TED’s “snacks curator” has some advice for shaking up your office pantry
- The Best “Actors Playing Themselves” Cameos in Movie History
Animal corner:
- Black Labrador Jumps off Staircase to Get to the Ocean
- Shiba Inu puppies
- Woman Records How Her Dog And Her Cats React To Her Coming Home, And Yep, That Seems About Right
- You call this a prison Karen ?
- The longer you look at this the better it gets
- It’s a dog help dog world
Tweets of the week:
- You’d think by now after tweeting it every f**king year he’d believe it
- How it looks online versus how it looks when you try it on
- In honor of #Sesame50 I present my favorite outtake ever: Julia Louis-Dreyfus cursing in front of Elmo, who is so method that he just rolls with it.
- it’s pride month so i am legally required to repost this
- Me: You: Everyone: No one: Brands at 12:01am on June 1st:
- The laws of physics are amazing.
- The Joker should have been a woman. And she finally went insane because too many random dudes told her to smile, so now she perpetually smiles while terrorizing Gotham.
Part 3: For the weekend
Longer reads:
- ‘If You Want to Kill Someone, We Are the Right Guys’
- The Church of Living Dangerously: How One of America’s Biggest Pastors Became a Drug Runner for a Mexican Cartel
- Why we are addicted to conspiracy theories
- Requiem for a Sports Bettor
- My childhood in a cult
- Faith, Friendship, and Tragedy at Santa Fe High
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