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Friday Inspiration 447
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Pretty interesting piece about the “top thinkers” of 1974 trying to predict what the world would be like in 50 years, and what they got right and what they got wrong. One prediction: “commuting for business purposes would go out of style. It would become more convenient to let electrons, rather than people, do the traveling…”
(Via Kottke.org)
In my recent efforts to learn how to rest better/at all, I have been thinking a lot about this Oliver Burkeman piece from early August, “What would it mean to be done for the day?”
I don’t listen to baseball on the radio much anymore, but I will definitely hum with nostalgia while reading someone else’s essay about his family’s history of listening to baseball on the radio. (gift link)
This is five years old but I just saw found out about it through a meme I saw, and was happy to find out that it’s true—a New Zealand man who found out he was going to be laid off from his job brought an emotional support clown to the meeting.
Do you have to have listened to music on cassette tapes to appreciate the aesthetics of cassette tapes? Or to appreciate this monumental effort to archive the huge range of cassette designs produced in the heyday of tapes? I sure hope not.
As an “Inbox Zero” (ok, lately more like “Inbox 20” person), I cannot relate to this, but I am impressed by it. Congrats to this guy on 100,000 unread emails.
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Writer, artist, filmmaker, columnist for Outside Magazine. My newsletter about creativity, adventure, and enthusiasm goes out to 15,000+ subscribers every week.
Friday Inspiration 449 This is kind of a rapid-fire of short video stories about pizza, and maybe you won’t watch all of them (the whole video is a bit over 8 minutes), but if you watch the first one, you will have seen, maybe for the first time, the World Pizza Games pizza acrobatics competition, a sport I just found out existed yesterday. (video) I don’t often eat ice cream at McDonald’s, but I love that someone made a website (in 2020!) that tells you which McDonald’s ice cream machines...
Friday Inspiration 448 As much as we all at know, deep in our hearts, that social media isn’t real life, it’s interesting to hear some experts talk about how we can keep it from distorting our perspective (also, there’s an ad in this video from about 00:50 until 2:10, if you’d like to skip it)(video) Sure, Shohei Ohtani is impressive as a baseball player because he’s able to succeed at a high level as both a pitcher and a hitter (and base-stealer), but how many other MLB players have ever...
I Stopped To Read Some Signs And Let Me Tell You I have run and bicycled a certain one-mile section of the paved riverfront multi-use path in my hometown probably at least 200 or 300 times. A handful of times, I have thought to myself, “I should really stop and read some of these historical plaques along the trail.” I believed there to be two or three of them, and in four years, I never made the minuscule effort to pull off the trail even once for the 60 to 90 seconds required to read them. A...