Welcome to week 15 of Internet of Literal Things. The weird, wacky, wonderful, and wild of the world wide web seems to be several-too-many “w’s” and a perfect place for me to start. I’m Sara Nason, a fellow person on the internet, who happens to have many hours on hand to read random articles that are tucked into multiple crevices in my phone.
I spent a part of my afternoon today planting cuttings from my Jade Plant that I’ve had for the past five years. I’m reminded even in stressful weeks that doing nothing (or something as simple as planting a cutting) is a healthy way to take a break from the incessant notifications of the internet and what I need to be doing tomorrow, or Tuesday, or Friday.
Sunny Summer Sundays are always my way to take a step back and breathe a little bit, albeit being back in my hometown, where it’s about 105º with 40% humidity by 10am every day. I’ve developed ways to make each day focused on the things that make me happy, and I’m using my weekends to learn too.
So, strangers of the internet, here we go. Sunny Summer Sundays for the Internet of Literal Things #15.
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What I’m Reading
The power of one push-up (The Atlantic)
NYC’s squirrel census (CityLab)
History will not be kind to Jony Ive (Vice)
Why isn’t birth control better? (Vox)
Yale’s Happiness Class, distilled (The Atlantic)
What does “queering design education” look like? (Eye on Design)
Student reporters can serve their communities when admins get out of the way (ProPublica)
July 1st is moving day for all of Montreal (CityLab)
“The books will stop working” (Twitter)
You’re doing something important when you’re doing nothing (NY Times)
Epigram vs. Epigraph vs. Epitaph (The Paris Review)
Consider the Octopus (JSTOR Review)
A dialogue with color theory (Designers and Books)
An interview with Agnès Varda (The Believer)
The pianist and the lobster (NY Times)
The quest for quiet in NYC (CityLab)
The gentrification of graffiti (The New Republic)
Kahlil Gibran on friendship and the building blocks of meaningful connection (brainpickings)
What I’m Visually Experiencing
Tan France Gives Ali Wong A Movie Star Makeover (YouTube)
Melissa Joan Hart - Under A Rock with Tig Notaro (YouTube)
What I’m Listening To
Always Be My Maybe Soundtrack (Spotify)
summer19 playlist (Spotify)
🏆 A Photo of An #UglyDogs Related Thing On The Internet 🥇
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