We Love the Internet 2024/31: The new pornographers edition
2 min readAug 2, 2024
Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- The Secret Battle for the Future of the Murdoch Empire
- We’re in a New Era of Survey Science
- White-Collar Work Is Just Meetings Now
Reference points:
- Scaling one million checkboxes to 650,000,000 checks
- The 16 types of creators and the metamorphic impulse
- The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
- The Four Newsletter Growth Quadrants
Longer reads:
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
- The Thrilling Tale of Terry Bolinger: The 13-Year-Old Daredevil of Indianapolis
- How sci-fi has changed over the last 70 years, analyzed with data.
- Goalie’s point of view seeing pucks 40 to 90 mph
Things to look at/read:
- Britain is running out of babies
- The world’s most, and least, walkable cities
- Unhinged: a guide to the modern tribes of competitive dating
- How America’s Fastest Swimmers Use Math to Win Gold
- Pooping on the Moon Is a Messy Business
- How the Broccoli Perm Became the Definitive Zoomer Hairstyle
Animal corner:
- The seal lion was just trying to give a nice California welcome
- Always stealing momma’s food
- Crönch
- Whenever theres water for maddie to jump in, shes there
- Even getting a treat of a custard cream all rules must be obeyed before i eats
- Difficultly with the seating arrangement tonight
- When you’re trying out some handstand stuff but you live with a little black cat
Tweets of the week:
- Bro pissed off every Italian he could
- “A brick to the balls and concussion, a brick to the balls and concussion”.
- girls packing for a trip vs guys packing for a trip
- New Trumpton fire brigade just dropped.
- Can’t work out if Peppa is left handed and about to pull this ball for six
- We know he can swim but…
Part 3: For the weekend
Longer reads:
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