Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- The Man Who Built The Retweet: “We Handed A Loaded Weapon To 4-Year-Olds”
- The Hotel Hackers Are Hiding in the Remote Control Curtains
- Bon Appétit’s Gourmet Makes is a great way to learn how to be productive at work
- Is this social start up the future of TV?
- I.P. Quartz Brief, the innovative mobile news app.
- Lights, camera, caption! Why subtitles are no longer just for the hard of hearing
- Shopify and the Power of Platforms
Reference points:
- 100 Things We’ve Learned About Language from The Allusionist
- On YouTube’s Biggest Channels, Videos With Keywords Like ‘Fortnite,’ ‘ASMR’ and ‘Insane’ Get Higher Views
- 44 African Americans who shook up the world
- Snapchat’s Gender-Swap and Baby Filters Doubled App Downloads
- Generation Z’s suicide epidemic
Longer reads:
- How ‘Overwatch’ Is Tackling the Esports Stats Problem
- The Wild Ride at Babe.Net
- Can Democrats win back the internet in the age of Trump?
- The Land Where the Internet Ends
- Slack Wants to Replace Email. Is That What We Want?
- TikTok Has A Predator Problem. A Network Of Young Women Is Fighting Back.
- Why the ending of Game of Thrones elevated the worst of fan culture
- At Work, Expertise Is Falling Out of Favor
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
- Storyline – the trend guessing game
- Two People Crash At ‘Mountain Of Hell’ Bike Race — And Then All Hell Really Does Break Loose
- How To Make A Cheese Ball Machine Gun
- Cassetteboy – Boris Johnson’s Leadership Bid
- The Alfonso Cuaron One-Shot Sequence
Things to look at/read:
- Stay in the game
- Romance Novel Model Jason Baca, 45, Retiring from the Genre After Posing on Over 630 Covers
- Meet the Guy Who Bought a Monorail For $1,000
- Wireless headphones are augmented reality devices
- A Brief History of the Movie-Summarizing End-Credits Rap
- What do people in solitary confinement want to see?
Animal corner:
- DogCoin Mining by 2 Labradors
- Doggy Stays Dry While Playing with Water
- Mother Skunk Helps Babies Climb over Curb
- Saint Bernard Makes Huge Mess and Chews Entire Paper Towel Roll
- I showed my cat the Cats trailer.
- I don’t care how small your advertising budget is. Wonderful things can still be done.
- Brought home a new pet
- why does this dog look like richard gere
Tweets of the week:
- What is up with our timeline
- so we’re 2 hours into the races, and el comes and tells me someone has spilt red wine down her…
- this is terrifying
- I have watched this video of Ryan from last night 300 times 😂😭😂😭 cannot write this stuff
- This is my new favorite wild mommy post. It’s me, the millennial slut who just goes to Disney World to make children cry
- MONEY/IDIOT KLAXON.
- What kind of lasers were they fucking using?!
- For the last 800 days, @meganamram has posted this tweet every day.
Part 3: For the weekend
Longer reads:
- A Family Portrait: Brothers, Sisters, Strangers
- Subway Got Too Big. Franchisees Paid a Price.
- Hooked
- How Warped Tour led the consumerist music festival revolution
- Behind ‘The Mask’
- David Sackler pleads his case on the opioid epidemic
- The $500m family feud
- What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane
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