When was the first time a waiter asked someone whether they saved room for dessert? Is that guy getting royalties?
Want to read—nonfiction: Empires of the Steppes by Kenneth W. Harl 📚
From landlines to Zoom, a brief 30+ year history of business phone technology and etiquette. By Clive Thompson.
In the 90s, background noise was unprofessional. Today, if somebody’s cat zoombombs the meeting, business stops while everybody meets the cat.
Wanted: A combined RSS/Mastodon client. Yes, Masto generates RSS feeds but that doesn’t give you everything a Mastodon client does.
Cory Doctorow: How the kleptocrats and oligarchs hunt civil society groups to the ends of the Earth:
It’s a great time to be an oligarch! If you have accumulated a great fortune and wish to put whatever great crime lies behind it behind you, there is an army of fixers, lickspittles, thugs, reputation-launderers, procurers, henchmen, and other enablers who have turnkey solutions for laundering your reputation and keeping the unwashed from building a guillotine outside the gates of your compound.
One Weird Trick for Writing a First Draft. By Clive Thompson
Clive Thompson: How I Take Notes When I’m Doing Research
Excellent discussion of “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”
On the You Are Good podcast with hosts Sarah Marshall and Alex Steed and guest Rain DeGrey.
The only movie I’ve ever watched more than once in a single day. I watched it three times.
Though it is a great movie, I don’t know if I would call it one of my favorites. But something about it hit me hard on that particular day.