Your Mid-Week Experiment
Have you heard the good news about Sarah Bird?
I don’t mind working late at a job I love. I’ve never been able to do more good for more people as quickly or at scale as I’ve been able to in this job. But last week a work obligation kept me from going to my friend Sarah Bird’s amazing launch party for her lovely new novel, Last Dance on the Starlight Pier. Her book is such a big damn deal that they excerpted it in Texas Monthly, which they don’t do for just any book. I read the book in galleys, and as a published author myself, I feel safe in sharing my professional opinion and Last Dance, which in my estimation is what we call in the book bis “good.” You should buy it, and then you should read it, and then you should join me in spreading the good news of Sarah Bird on a largely unprepared yet also unsuspecting public.
I can’t tell if people on LinkedIn didn’t agree with my Elon Musk/Twitter essay or didn’t read it. Meanwhile, here’s what I’ve been up to:
Making charred carrots with herbed drizzle.
Pre-order my buddy’s book about Sikh wisdom.
Bring back the labor beat, writes Margaret Sullivan.
Elvis Costello sang along with the Michael Leonhart Orchestra on “Shut Him Down.” Good stuff.
“Given well-documented advances in the field of information warfare, there should be no illusion: today’s culture war cannot be won by any side.” h/t A.G.
This episode of Ryan Holiday’s podcast made me want to quit my job and write full-time.
After the pilot, S turned to me and asked, “Is this what reality television is like?” There is a chaotic energy to We Crashed that has me hooked. It’s nuts.
Thanks to Noom, I lost 40 pounds over 2020-21 and have kept it off since then. Click on the blue box to get 20% off. Seriously, this works. No, this isn’t an ad. Yes, I really lost all that weight with Noom.
We set up a merch table in the back where you can get T-shirts, coffee mugs, and even tote bags now. Show the world that you’re part of The Experiment.
We’ve also got a tip jar, and I promise to waste every cent you give me on having fun, because writing this newsletter for you is some
Buy the book Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick banned from the Bullock Texas History Museum: Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of the American Myth by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and myself is out from Penguin Random House. Out in paperback this June!