Saturday Short Reads
Saturday Short Reads
My Top 5 things for you to read over the weekend.
Bit late off the mark today, sorry! Running some errands and now have finally sat down with a coffee. Hope you’re enjoying some sunshine where you are.
As per our now custom, every Saturday morning I’ll share 5 things I found interesting this week.
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I love the ‘Future of Everything’ newsletter in The Wall Street Journal. It’s a great one to subscribe too - if you don’t already have too many newsletter subscriptions of course. This week the piece on how Apple’s notes app has become an extension of our brains got my attention. What’s in your notes app? Going back a couple of years and I see random things like ‘Beetroot’ with no other context. A shopping list? Or just random numbers like ‘2153’ (an old PIN number?) Even parking space reminders (‘Level 2, 3rd yellow pole on the right’) are still there from 2016. It’s the diary of a madman!
Love to learn? Same. This piece from Psyche talks about how you should test yourself before you learn anything. “It may sound illogical, but growing evidence shows the benefits of testing yourself before you start learning new material”. Dig in and have a read.
Adam Singer (here on Substack) wrote about TikTok and Instagram being ‘intellectual poison’. It’s a really tricky debate this one. We all know the addictive qualities of the socials, but who has honestly dropped their usage lately? I try and do it but it’s a hard habit to break.
Not sure when I became a Saturday Night Live (SNL) fan. The show is celebrating it’s 50th anniversary this season, and I remember the 40th year anniversary show clearly so maybe it was around then. Such a cavalcade of household names have gone through Studio 8H in Rockefeller Plaza. John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Adam Sandler, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock… it’s a who’s who of comedy. (If you haven’t seen a single episode, the comedy ‘30 Rock’ was Tina Fey’s fictional recreation of it). The new film ‘Saturday Night’ takes a creative look at their very first show that goes to air in 1975. As a superfan, I loved this interview with the director Jason Reitman. He talks about how the show was so hard to define, but that’s what made it work. A great read for anyone in the media/entertainment biz.
Finally, this piece by Michelle Bowes in the Australian Financial Review caught my attention. Headline: “Signs you’re raising entitled brats (and how to avoid it)”. Leave that with you.
Happy reading,
Wade