Your Mid-Week Experiment
4 essays, 2 songs, 1 recipe, and a Wes Anderson short
Welcome to your always free, reader-supported mid-week edition of The Experiment where we share great things to read, cook, listen to, and watch. If you’d like to support my work, buy my Alamo book, buy some Experiment merch, drop some coins in the PayPal fountain, or become a paid subscriber. But even if you don’t, this bugga free.
Let’s get right to it:
“It’s human being, not human doing, for a reason.” (Ryan Holiday)
Here are the ways that being smart makes you dumb. (Morgan Housel)
St. Vincent has new music out!
Let this be the last word on Katie Britt. (Karen Tumulty)
Actually, this, a surprising dissection of Britt’s “fundie baby voice,” should be it. (Jess Piper)
Did you ever wonder what it would sound like if Walker Lukens produced Stella and the Very Messed?
Nikole Hannah-Jones, the author of The 1619 Project, is back with her first New York Times Magazine essay since 2020: (Nikole Hannah-Jones)
Winner, winner, chicken dinner. (New York Times Cooking)
On first viewing, I spit the hook. Upon second, I loved this.
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