The Weekend Wrap #1
Every week, intentionally or unintentionally, I find myself face-to-face with some of the internet’s most interesting content.
That’s why I’m starting *The Weekend Wrap. *This weekly curation will be an informal collection of fascinating articles, podcasts, artworks, photographs, videos, music, and more from across the web that I’ve come across throughout the week.
Without further ado, here’s what caught my eye:
💡 Make Decisions Before You Have To via Matt Tanner
“The thing about difficult decisions is that making them over and over again only compounds the difficulty. Instead, make decisions once, before you even have to.”
Read the full article here.
🌊 Can A California Town Move Back From The Sea? via High Country News
“At the start of each year, Southern California gets a glimpse into a future of rising seas, through an annual event called the king tide. On that day, the sun, moon, and Earth align to create a heavy gravitational pull, leading to the highest tides of the year.
If “king tide” sounds ominous, that’s because it is, particularly for a city like Imperial Beach, a small coastal town near the Mexican border surrounded by water on three sides: San Diego Bay to the north, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Tijuana River Delta to the south.”
Read the full article here.
🌽 On Food via N+1 Magazine
“The rules of food, of sex, of exercise, of health, give us ways to avoid facing up to a freedom from care which we may already have within reach. This would be an accomplished freedom from biology, lacking nothing, which we simply don’t know what to do with.
What if life were not really a possessive commodity that came in quantities that you gained or lost by your efforts? What if there were no further overcoming of some obstacle (disease, mortality) still to be attained, and we are now in the era of life assured and made free? If so — well, how should we act?”
Read the full article here.
📊 The Simple Hack To Make Meetings Better via Torchbox
“From tomorrow, score every meeting. Score it out of ten at the end of the meeting. Not just you, all participants. Do it for client meetings too. Nothing below a score of eight counts as a good meeting.”
Read the full article here.
🤒 The Death of the Sick Day via The New York Times
“Working from home may sound relaxing, but the “working” part of that phrase underscores the expectations that accompany it: being available to check and respond to email, hop on a conference call and generally be productive, even if you feel lousy.”
Read the full article here.
🌱 The Microscopic Wonders of Herbs via National Geographic
“The most visually unusual, and haunted, of the spices photographed by Oeggerli is the one that looks nothing like the others: the red saffron. The saffron, used both for seasoning and coloring food, is neither leaf nor flower.”
See the photographs here.
🛤 The Most Extreme Railway in the World via The Atlantic
“At 430 miles long, the formidable Mauritania Railway, nicknamed the “backbone of the Sahara,” boasts some of the longest and heaviest trains in the world. Its journey begins in Zouerat, Mauritania, where 22,000 tons of iron ore are mined daily and transported across the searing desert to the port city of Nouadhibou, on Africa’s Atlantic coast.
Sometimes the train also carries passengers — merchants who travel illegally atop the train to transport food and supplies to remote Saharan communities. The ride is treacherous. Many die en route.”
Watch the short documentary here.
📝 Why You Should Start A Great List via Josh Spector
“Stressful situations have been less stressful, happy situations have been more enjoyable, and things I might normally dread have somehow become things I look forward to — or at least don’t dread.
Spending 10 minutes a day to identify great things in my life that have happened, are happening, and will happen has shifted my approach to life in an incredibly positive way.”
Read the full article here.