Your Mid-Week Experiment

Welcome to your always free, reader-supported edition of The Experiment where we share great things to read, cook, listen to, and watch. As always, this bugga free.

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Let’s get right to it:

Does optimizing for speed reduce human enjoyment? Great read; h/t Elie Jacobs (Rory Sutherland)

Why to people post comments on porn sites? (E.J. Dickson)

Business is a money-making venture, right? So why do we have the phrased “Like nobody’s business” and “it’s not your business”? (John McWhorter)

Hey, go vote for my boss in the Diverse Community category. (Visit Dallas)

This doesn’t make me a good person, but this was the most emotionally satisfying violence I’ve seen in a while. Think John Wick, but more violence and less cartoonishly comic book-y.

Tight writing, face paced.

Liked this movie a lot more than I thought I would, but it’s not as good as it thinks it is. Perhaps an unintentional depiction of how useless the press has become in covering our political conflicts.

This might be my favorite scene of television ever at the end of what might be my favorite episode of television of what is definitely one of my favorite television series’ ever.

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