What does it mean to feed your soul? This is what has been on my mind the past few weeks. So much ink is spilled on optimizing work-life balance, productivity hacks and ‘tips on unplugging’. And my big a-ha was that just like any diet, the soul can’t be sustained with just one food group. One of these, for me, is ‘learning as much about the world I inhabit’ - this is the reason I started this newsletter back in 2018. It was my own catalog of curiosities - that just happened to be interesting when it landed in other people’s inboxes.
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Here are the finds of the week:
- DESK HISTORY See how much the school desk has evolved over time to adapt to the needs of classrooms.
- HIJACKED “Instagram Face, I have come to believe, is just one symptom of something far larger and more pernicious. It is one manifestation of what I see as the driving force behind much of Gen Z’s growing and global mental health crisis. It is the end result—the inevitable end-point—of what I think of as the algorithmic conveyor belt. “
- AFROFUTURE How Spotify helped turn Afrobeats into a global phenomenon.
- V-AI-TICAN The Pope has an AI advisor. “What is the difference between a man who exists and a machine that functions?
- SLOW CHANGE “Most truths are like that, easy to hear or recite, hard to live in the sense that slowness is hard for most of us, requiring commitment, perseverance, and return after you stray. Because the job is not to know; it’s to become.”
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Out of utter necessity, I need to buy a new laptop this week. It would be a lie to say I’m not ecstatic about that new laptop smell.
