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Friday 10
Hi,
Happy Friday! Here’s a list of 10 neat things.
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Art: Mary Ruefle on the joy of blackout poetry
“All the words rise up and they hover a quarter inch above the page. It’s like a field, and they’re hovering. I don’t actually read the page. I read the words, which is different. So I’m looking, and I see all the words. And I go in and I pick a phrase or a word that’s delicious that I really love.”
More on blackout poetry.
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Film: Wouldst thou like to live deliciously? - What is a soul worth?
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Culture: “Where is the tipping point in which edgy social commentary becomes problematic?” - Defining bigotry in satire: Bill Burr’s monologue.
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Philosophy: What is character? Debunking the myth of fixed personality
“The topic of personal identity is strictly speaking nonexistent. It’s important to recognize that we are not the kind of things that simply popped into existence at birth, continue to exist, the same thing, then die off the cliff edge or go into another realm.”
5.
UX: How one UX researcher ignited sweeping changes to YouTube - good article by
on how Youtube became more like TV, and why I’m now hooked ha.6.
UX: (Experimentation + Iteration + Testing) × Learning = Great UX - not new, but always a good reminder.
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Business: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations members in 2015, created 17 world Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with the aim of "peace and prosperity for people and the planet..." - oof skip to the results and outcomes section :/
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World: Where did Mandarin come from? - the language was a koiné based on Mandarin dialects. The Beijing dialect became dominant by the mid 19th century. In some works, it was called the court dialect.
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Spirituality: I’ve always loved the idea of pendulums, but they never work for me :( Here’s more pendulum advice. One day…
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Updates: TV - I recently rewatched The Good Place - very good, and romantic. Love Loot, and rewatched The Truman Show last night - I usually can’t with Jim Carrey (so many reasons), but it’s an interesting and sad movie. Took me down a Marlon (his best friend) rabbit hole - super tragic character - alcoholic from guilt, forced to endorse beer.