Happy Friday,
I hope you’ve been enjoying “Dead Week”. We’ve somehow arrived at the final installment of links for 2022. Thank you for reading!
Here is the best from around the web this week:
While I don’t consider it a week of “giving up,” as Fitzgerald describes it, I do consider it a glorious week of low expectations, which I look forward to each year. I’ve certainly been enjoying it, mostly by eating leftover Christmas pastries and chocolate and trying to finish up my reading (and notetaking) for the year.
Seth Godin with a useful metaphor for life: Switching Gears.
A short history of how the music business went from mostly live to mostly recorded in less than a decade, and what we can learn from that dramatic shift.
A piece from the latest issue of the New York Review of Books asking why humans even began writing at all?
Pertinent reading heading into the new year: Big Goals Can Backfire.
Currently reading: The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt
Have a safe and Happy New Year! See you in 2023.
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