📨All The Weekend Links
So many links. So many links you won't believe it. Context Collapse #155
Hello there internet friends.
I had a post all planned out in my head today and outlined in Notion… but then work got busy.
You’ve been there! I’ve been there right now.
And, dear reader, I have absolutely zero interest in being chained to my computer post-work hours to finish this newsletter. I have work to do for clients. I would also like to take a long walk, take my son to the playground after I pick him up from daycare, fix some stuff around the house and have some ridiculously spicy Indian food for dinner.
Also, I was working onsite with a client this week and had an awesome view. That was good.
Otherwise? I just saw The Verge’s new redesign, which I like a lot. Fully integrating Tweets and short (<100 word) content bursts into the homepage. The idea = The homepage as a destination (How 2009!). Getting heavy Drudge Report with modern UI/UX vibes from it (Good thing) or like a Bloomberg Ticker in a sci-fi future for technology news (Good thing). And I just finished listening to the How I Built It episode on The Financial Diet, which is a good primer on building a media brand that prizes sustainable long-term profits over quarter-over-quarter growth. I like that approach.
Anyway… today’s weekend links = short and sweet.
Known Pleasures is a podcast all about 80s postpunk.
Blindspot Report shows which news stories are being underreported by right-wing or left-wing leaning media sources.
Plan To Eat is the best recipe organizer app I’ve ever seen.
Personal and professional humiliation via slide decks.
20 tips for moderating a panel discussion.
60+ pitching guides for Vox, NatGeo, Wired, BBC, WaPo, Wirecutter, Slate, and more.
ContraPoints’ Natalie Wynn on style in political persuasion, internet fascism and cancel culture.
Don’t Worry Darling, the meme industry.
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Apple pivots to the world being dangerous.
WhatsApp will let you silently leave group chats now.
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