Quick thought: #Severance is a show that is best binged. The continuity of the innies being trapped down on the severed floor is best “felt” by binging. Which is why I think I enjoyed S01 so much. S02 continues to thrill but the weekly releases don’t bend time as compellingly!
The Africa gap | @TheEconomist // There’s lots to read - how to stick with resolutions, predictions on AI. But this special report on Africa - the challenges and opportunities across the most consequential of continents - deserves your attention. https://t.co/BZzzFycUlq
Ness Labs: Becoming the Anthropologist of your Own Life 📝 // @neuranne lays out a simple but exciting way to do just that. “Taking field notes as you live is a game of curiosity and patience, an exercise in humility and receptiveness.” https://t.co/zH8jgQJ8kT
The World is Becoming More African https://t.co/Qx2iw8f0wv via @NYTimes // “By 2050, Africans will be 1/4 of humanity. The demographic shift requires a reimagining of the continent’s place in the world, and its ability to address urgent issues: climate, energy, jobs, migration.”
“Seventy Miles in Hell” via @TheAtlantic. The Darién Gap was once considered impassable. @itscaitlinhd traveled the route to report on the experiences of hundreds of thousands willing to risk treacherous terrain, violence, and disease to cross it. https://t.co/eKHpnc360x
@irgarner@TheBearFX Back in my day, when X was Twitter, you made your point in 140 characters or less. You can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Hence today’s cramming of lengthy celebrity names into seemingly indecipherable acronyms, and other contractions. Should I take up more space? Maybe. Hey, lo-
No doubt @TheBearFX has heavy hitting protagonists in JAW, EMB and AE. But, I have to say, in S03, it’s Jon Bernthal’s Mikey and Abby Elliott’s Natalie who take your breath away in their scene stealing turns across from T (Ep6) and Donna (Ep8), respectively.
Even if the score line doesn’t reflect it, this was an incredible match which showed what it takes to hang with Djokovic (and why you might still come up short). Regardless, Musetti with a capital M has arrived. #Wimbledon
To love is to be brave (Kelly Corrigan | TED2024) https://t.co/vgqPwEBcel via @TEDTalks // “That's how the brave shine, that's all they do. They say, ‘Tell me more. What else? Go on.’”
What My Dog Taught Me About Mortality https://t.co/bZLoopJHN6 // Was it Hemingway who said that writers should “write the truest sentence you know?” The simplicity and honesty of Sam Anderson’s writing is spellbinding.
@benleventhal In three sentences: I’m a second-year MBA at Harvard, with a passion for restaurants, hospitality and building user-centric products that delight and create value. I’d like to help you advance Blackbird’s mission. Can we connect?
“Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up. But the writing is a way of not allowing those things to destroy you.” — John Edgar Wideman
The West Must Defeat Russia - @TheAtlantic @anneapplebaum // “We need to start helping the Ukrainians fight this war as if we were fighting it, altering our slow decision-making process to match the urgency of the moment.” https://t.co/iec09DywQN
$67 Billion of Rare Minerals Is Buried Under One of the World’s Biggest Carbon Sinks via @WSJ // Protecting carbon sinks, securing access to minerals for the energy transition, enabling inclusive growth in indigenous communities. Can 🇨🇦 do all 3? https://t.co/b02aXCsnJH