Mid-Week Links!
Trying a new thing out
So, my friends know I’m a serial link sender. I’m constantly reading articles or essays or watching videos and sending them to my friends with the caption: TBD!
I’m trying out a thing where I share some of these links with you in a mid-week email. For a couple of weeks, this will be free, then I’ll likely make it for paid subscribers only. That’s only if you find them valuable, of course. So - let me know what you think!
Here goes:
Great interview on Inverse which made me reflect on my relationship with action movies - why don’t we pay more attention to the stunts themselves, which are increasingly technical and difficult to pull off? A love letter to John Wicks.
‘WFH ruined my 20s’: I’m fascinated by all the conversations about WFH. Personally, I feel like they are completely outside my experience, as my ‘professional work’ was always on site - drilling for oil is impossible to do from home - and when I switched careers (freelance broadcasting / writing) the choice of location was much more within my control. Posts like these make me feel for the young ones, coming into corporate environments where the rules of old have been thrown out but the new status quo has yet to settle.
Eight questions to help you think about dying: I often wonder how those without faith systems think about dying, the one thing that truly comes for us all. Even still, this piece offered a series of reflective prompts that are powerful for anyone, regardless of spiritual, religious or faith based leanings.
Are the kids too soft? Anne Helen-Peterson delving into a thorny, real issue that has come up time and time again in my own life - how do we engage with a generation that is demanding the very things we fought for, but we are now annoyed they expect? She says: '“The recurring hypocrisy makes me wonder: Do we *actually* not want people to go through what we went through….or do we secretly think what we went through is foundational to good work?”
Drowning in Slop: A NYmag read on the ‘thriving underground economy is clogging the internet with AI garbage’ - a must read, though depressing.
Latest on Sudan:
Latest numbers say 14 million are now displaced, including many who have been displaced multiple times (including my family)
That’s all for now! Don’t want to overwhelm you. If you feel like this has been useful or interesting or have any feedback, let me know!
Cheers,
Yassmin