Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- Magazine Writers Are Cashing In on Peak TV
- Welcome to the Era of Branded Engagements
- This is an ad targeted at millennials
- How RadioLab turns science into compelling stories
- Niche is the New Mainstream
- TikTok Is the New Music Kingmaker, and Labels Want to Get Paid
- LinkedIn is the New Craigslist
Reference points:
Longer reads:
- Inside Google’s Civil War
- The Empty Promise of Data Moats
- Why political journalism keeps getting it wrong
- When seeing is no longer believing
- Why I (Still) Love Tech: In Defense of a Difficult Industry
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
- Can you swim in Jello?
- The Human Foot Is a Design Disaster
- Selfie Fail Wave Wipeout
- Why Amazon Is Gobbling Up Failed Malls
- Intense Interstate Merging Fail
Things to look at/read:
- For a Split Second, a Quantum Computer Made History Go Backward
- YouTube apologies and reality TV revelations – the rise of the public confession
- Yes, This Photo from Everest Is Real
- The $500m smiley face business
- Baby pterodactyls could fly from birth
Animal corner:
- Warthog Doesn’t Realize the 7 Lions Behind It!
- Bird Believes He’s a Phone Alarm
- It’s peliCAN not peliCAN’T
Tweets of the week:
- This is so satisfying to watch
- Look at this guy smash his own nuts by crossing his legs.
- This is how to make a DaVinci bridge
- Wowww just had to unfollow OJ. He’s funny on twitter but give him a google and you will NOT like him anymore
- i never in my life thought i’d see michelle obama hit harry styles in the dick with a dodgeball but hey god works in mysterious ways
- do people even hear themselves
- “I think I’m feeling it, yeah”
- At the rate I am now convinced I have been breathing all wrong
Part 3: For the weekend
Longer reads:
- ‘They Were Conned’: How Reckless Loans Devastated a Generation of Taxi Drivers
- Carly Rae Jepsen And The Rise Of The Micro Pop Star
- How The Milwaukee Bucks And A Former Wedding DJ Won The T-Shirt Cannon Arms Race
- The Curious Cons of the Man Who Wouldn’t Die
- Impossible Foods’ rising empire of almost-meat
- The Curious History of Crap—From Space Junk to Actual Poop
- Why Leonardo da Vinci’s brilliance endures, 500 years after his death
- Who killed the prime minister? The unsolved murder that still haunts Sweden
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