We Love the Internet 2022/12: The Write to excite edition
2 min readMar 25, 2022
Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- The Baby-Sitters Club Wasn’t Enough for Netflix Anymore
- Stand-Up Comedy Shines During a Tough Time for Music Touring
- Looking Back on the Origin of ‘Skip Intro’ Five Years Later
- How the Russian Invasion of Ukraine Is Playing Out on English, Ukrainian, and Russian Wikipedia
- American Psychos: Unpacking the Internet’s Long, Awkward History With Patrick Bateman
- What’s driving the Great Resignation? Hope — with a side order of self-doubt
Reference points
Longer reads:
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
- How English Sounds to Japanese People
- Faces On A Big Screen
- Asians have different appliances than the rest of the world. We need to copy these things, they are so useful
Things to look at/read:
- Steven Soderbergh, American Auteur
- Japanese Homes Aren’t Built to Last — and That’s the Point
- Urban sprawlers: how city folk ruined the countryside
- Towards better hop descriptions
Animal corner:
Tweets of the week:
- It’s uncanny how good AI is getting
- Just remembered this guy who got banned from Magic Gathering tournaments for posing next to buttcracks
- This broke me.
- My bro captured this moment on the flight back
- no way the teacher using me in someone english class LMFAOOOO
- This is everything i needed to see from the internet today
- i guess that kant getting eaten!
- Omg this place was delicious!
Part 3: For the weekend
Longer reads:
- America’s Next Food Craze Is Buried in Appalachia
- The rise, fall and potential resurrection of a coffee brewing legend
- Getaway Driver
- The rise and fall of the bank robbery capital of the world
- Meet the woman who builds the world’s most unique Airbnbs
- Nicolas Cage Can Explain It All
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