The Stack - Issue #2
Monroe, Michigan; anesthesia and hand-washing; and a little something wonderful
I am having so much fun with this format! The hardest thing is figuring how to whittle down what I want to share with you all.
So, this week I'll keep things a little shorter and see how that feels. Let dig in...
This Week's Finds
A video with Stephen Colbert
This is an older interview I stumbled across. Stephen and his guest talk about rap music, whether the artist has even been "feat-ed", and Stephen evens encourages the man to consider pursuing a "real" career.
The interviewee's name is Marshall Mathers.
An article by Atul Gawande
This New Yorker article had many stories that were powerful and compelling, but here's the rub: real change doesn't happen until we change people's norms, and those norms don't change outside of the context of relationships.
Technology in and of itself will never replace the power of social connection and trust.
Read Something Wonderful
This site is run by the folks behind the Matter read-it-later app. Those guys are doing a bunch of really great stuff, but this project is just so different and refreshing that I had to share.
Here's how they describe the site:
We spend most of our time building reading software, but we made this site because we felt something was off in the modern media environment. You probably feel it too.
We're referring to novelty bias, the way our feeds and headlines are tuned to show us what's new, not what's best.
Most of the best writing was not created in the past year. Yet most of what we get served is from the past 24 hours. We're stuck in a cycle of ephemeral content consumption, what David Perell calls the "Never-Ending Now."
This site is intended to be a counterweight to the Never-Ending Now, an access point to writing that has stood the test of time.
That’s all for this weekend - I hope you all enjoy this as much I did in preparing it 😘
Also, if you ever want to get a sneak peak on future editions, I’m using Readwise Reader to power this and I put all my articles/highlights/notes in this feed for you all to access whenever you want!