OMM (On My Mind)
~ Week 2, March 2023 ~
::: Recommended Podcast Episodes :::
Bernie Sander’s new book – It’s Okay For You To Be Angry About Capitalism, Too (On NPR’s 1A)
Ø This interview with Bernie is good. I say this as someone who has eyerolled about how Bernie delivers information in the past. He’s on his best game here and it’s worth a listen.
Hidden Brain – How Your Beliefs Shape Reality
::: Music Recommendations :::
Still very into Caroline Polachek’s new album.
Still confused by Spotify’s Beta version of “DJ” (evidently in the beta stage for a reason)
Ø Wondering when we’ll get an option to name say 6 artists that you like and then the streaming service will create a station based on those artists and maybe slip in related tracks… seems like a fairly simplistic algorithm
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Are good writers writing, uh, less good, on Substack?
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Zuihitsu (随筆) is a genre of Japanese literature consisting of loosely connected personal essays and fragmented ideas that typically respond to the author's surroundings.
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1. Curate your socials
2. Take a day off from socials each week
3. Turn off notifications. (hard stop, yes, do this)
4. Set time limits
5. Use that time regained for something that feels meaningful
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Illness does not need to be framed as a “battle” (caveat: unless it’s helping you out).
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Humans on horseback goes back quite a ways.
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Pizza tricks. (It’s not what you think.)
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Giving workers what they want might…make them work better.
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[on] Seattle / AWP23
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Amazon NFTs with ties to real world objects…
What can I say, it will probably end up good for Amazon.
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“Around 70% of American adults are Amazon Prime members, which translates to roughly 148.6 million people.” (The Wolf of All Streets newsletter)
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‘Boy Meets World’s’ Ben Savage announces bid for seat Schiff vacating
As they say, life is stranger than fiction. You simply can’t make this stuff up.
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Bumblebees can learn and problem-solve and the vegans are looking at you with their arms crossed.
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France has a history of handling protests a certain kind of way (read: flipping cars). Maybe we have something to learn from the French?
The current battle is over raising the retirement age from 62 to 64. Notably, the U.S. is likely on track to raise the retirement age from 65 to 67. But that’s simply on the books. We all know people who can never retire (and others that it’s better if they don’t for their mental and physical health). Retirement is a fraught subject and there’s a lot to unpack. Maybe we’ll dig in on this more down the road. I certainly never plan to retire. What am I going to go play golf in Florida? No thanks.
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Clear ice is clearly a top priority and need. Come on people.
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Flamingos choose friends based on compatible personalities.
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I wanted this interview with Jenny Odell to be more interesting. I want to be interested in the new book. I read half…maybe 2/3 of How to do Nothing (as an audiobook) and it was good…and somehow lacking. I don’t know… maybe it’s popularity bias.
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It’s not all that often that I think “How can these people live with themselves” but here is an instance.
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Norse god Odin presumably disappointed to be getting a lot less attention in recent centuries.
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Terrible situations going on with police departments across the country with special attention to Louisville (KY), Memphis (TN), and a situation compared to “apartheid” by the mayor of Mississippi.
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There’s a TikTok filter (Bold Glamour) that is now so good it’s nearly impossible to tell if an image is a fake. So… beware of anyone saying “I look like this” on the internet.
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New evidence suggests there are 21,000 pieces of plastic ending up in the ocean for each person alive today. Oof.
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A new study is revisiting the cap on “money buying happiness” which, according to a 2010 study, suggested anything above $75K/year wasn’t doing much. Unsurprisingly, $75K isn’t sounding like you own the world given (a) Trump (b) pandemic (c) inflation … This relates, also, to a problem with everyday people looking to billionaires like Elon Musk as aspirational instead of lucky. The billionaire lottery is for sure rigged.
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Cheerios is officially the most “dominant” cereal. Take that Lucky Charms leprechaun.
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Another update from the world of tipping. The troubles with “tip creep”, sure. I stand by my usual position that if you’re out and about you should plan on tipping appropriately and, if at all possible, tipping on the heavy side.
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Irish animal names (because who said the English got it right?)
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“Military showers” are in. Also, don’t scrub your skin in the shower?
Advice from dermatologists about showering and skin care.
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I just saw references to this drug, Ozempic, twice in under five minutes… and that seems extremely worrisome. This article has some good advice on how to eat to stay full. And, what we already know, which is that there is some logic to trying to have colorful plates (meaning you get a variety of veggies and other goodness going on).
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