Your Mid-Week Experiment

Hey, kids, do you like lists of useful tips and advice?

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This headline is perfect—> “10 things I’m sure about food that people don’t want to believe” (Tamar Haspel)

Wait, this headline is perfect, too! (And the advice is even better.)—> “I was axed as Oatly's creative director - here are 5 arguably useful lessons” (Kevin Lynch)

This headline is almost as good, and the advice is bonkers good—> “27 Things I’ve Learned From 150 Million Podcast Downloads” (Ryan Holiday)

Here’s how to compliment someone well. (The New York Times)

And here are the rules of group chats, according to teenagers (Washington Post)

This is a terrific discussion:

I love the travel hack of “going two streets over.” (Washington Post)

The title of this song — rather, the phrase that this title is abbreviating — is a fun mantra.

S and I finally started Hijack, and she observed, correctly, I think, that negotiating with terrorists is a lot like being a campaign consultant. This show is like 24, but without the problematic post-9/11 politics (see also: Islamophobia, torture).

I got to forget the Alamo with Real Ballers Read.

Polite Society isn’t the movie you thought you desperately needed, but you were wrong. So. Very. Wrong.

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