Katherine Lu

[Katherine Lu @enirehtaklu]

started in transformation back in transformation

[Katherine Lu @enirehtaklu]

catching up on podcasts and the talk easy episode with david remnick is so good

[Katherine Lu @enirehtaklu]

today i onboarded someone 10 years younger than i am, to the day.. 💀

[Katherine Lu @enirehtaklu]

“babe can you carry me”
“no my neck is sore from not having a togo”

[Katherine Lu @enirehtaklu]

my most-emailed recipient is my kindle

[Katherine Lu @enirehtaklu]

rundle A scares me

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

ICYMI: My latest is a long piece on the historic rise in social isolation in America.

Here are the 10 most important, depressing, or just mind-blowing statistics I found in my reporting.

ON SOCIAL ISOLATION

1. Men who watch television now spend 7 hours in front of the TV for every 1 hour they spend hanging out with somebody outside their home.

2. The typical female pet owner spends more time actively engaged with her pet than she spends in face-to-face contact with friends of her own species.

3. From the late 1970s to the late 1990s, the frequency of hosting friends for parties, games, dinners, and so on declined by 45%, according to Robert Putnam. Then it got worse. Between the early 2000s and the latest data, the average amount of time that Americans spent hosting or attending social events declined another 32%.

ON ALONENESS AND HAPPINESS

4. A 5-percentage-point increase in alone time is associated with about the same decline in life satisfaction as was a 10% lower household income.

ON TV

5. From 1965 to 1995, the typical adult gained 6 weekly hours in leisure time. They funneled almost all of it into one activitiy: watching TV.

6. In 1970, just 6 percent of sixth graders had a TV set in their bedroom; in 1999, that proportion had grown to 77 percent.

ON TEENS

7. The share of boys and girls who say they meet up with friends almost daily outside school hours has declined by nearly 50 percent since the early 1990s.

ON 'HOMEBOUND' LIFE

8. According to Princeton's Patrick Sharkey, today's adults spend an additional 99 minutes inside their homes on any given day, compared with 2003.

9. The share of U.S. adults having dinner or drinks with friends outside the home on any given night has declined by more than 30% in the past 20 years.

ON RESTAURANTS

10. I think of restaurants as the ultimate "social" business. But today, just one-quarter of restaurant traffic is "on-premises"—that is, sitting, ordering, talking with people at a table. With the rise and rise of delivery 74% of all restaurant traffic now comes from “off premises” customers—takeout and delivery. And according to data gathered by OpenTable, solo dining has increased by 29% in just the past two years. The top reason given? The need for more “me time.”

*** All of these statistics were checked by our sensational fact-checking department. I provided evidence to them and am happy to provide evidence to others, on request, who have questions about the data or just want to go deeper. ***

[Katherine Lu @enirehtaklu]

here for the diego luna/andor emmys campaign push. more!!

[Katherine Lu @enirehtaklu]

Amazon-backed Glacier gets $16M to expand its robot recycling fleet https://t.co/m6g85BCAJt via @techcrunch
woohoooo go glacier team

[Katherine Lu @enirehtaklu]

one of my favorite writers and thinkers. subscribe & read!

[tiff @tiffhuangx]

Hi guys - I'd LOVE your support for my VERY 1ST Substack post: Saratoga Water Morning Routines & The Future of Crypto Communities

Excerpt below + link in 2nd tweet!

...The morning routine is just a mirror back at our own culture, which is a wellness hellscape. The morning routine attempts to give a definitive albeit ludicrous answer to a question that many men and women, wonder: “How can I be perfect?”

Meta makes more money when people are anxious. They stay online. Anxiety produces the need to be good, better, or perfect. How can we be perfect?

Influencers have responded. Their advice? Start the day perfectly.

Years before Ashton Hall, women were already driving themselves to near insanity to create the perfect morning routine, from practicing a facial care routine of 7,000 steps, drinking healthy gut and flat tummy teas, sliding jade gua shas up and down their face or jade eggs up their vaginas, and/or torturing ourselves in pilates, barre, yoga, or any other sports practice in the name of stretching themselves as lean as the mother in The Incredibles.

It’s not surprising that perfectionism is an epidemic that affects everyone in the age of highly produced digital content and insidiousness of influencers larping as health gurus. The confluence of both of these things is perfectionism at home alone where you can watch the content and on a device that you can use immediately to buy the necessary products. As our hellscape hurtles towards total dystopia, the perfection is always unreachable, because there is always a better method with another product, a newer Saratoga water bottle, a bigger face bowl, a tighter lip tape.

I’m still not sure if Ashton Hall realizes people are laughing at him, not with him…the truth is he probably doesn’t care because he’s not trying to promote wellness. He’s trying to monetize...

Read more in the link below!

[Katherine Lu @enirehtaklu]

the ads for BP on podcasts crack me up. Who is this for?

[Katherine Lu @enirehtaklu]

@hausoftiffany Boss mermaid 🧜‍♀️

[Katherine Lu @enirehtaklu]

4 days back from Shanghai and missing the quiet of basically only electric vehicles on the road

[NBA @NBA]

A historic moment in the NBA! -Adam

[𖧧 @mothintoflames]

snoopy reading intermezzo

[Katherine Lu @enirehtaklu]

i swear it sounds like very loud sea lions barking but nob hill isn’t thaaaaat close to fisherman’s wharf/pier 39

[Katherine Lu @enirehtaklu]

love this so much

[Riley Walz @rtwlz]

I installed a box high up on a pole somewhere in the Mission. Inside is a crappy Android phone, set to Shazam constantly, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It's solar powered, and the mic is pointed down at the street below https://t.co/8D4yYNBPgu

[Katherine Lu @enirehtaklu]

Industry finale was a+++

[Katherine Lu @enirehtaklu]

@SamFragoso thank you for putting such an excellent thing out into the world with so much craft & care!

[Katherine Lu @enirehtaklu]

Sam fragoso is such an great interviewer. A+ questions, research, really listens to what people are actually saying. Love the talk easy pod