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MONDAY MEDIA DIET 2022: INFO CAPTURE
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#INTERVIEWEELOCATIONWHAT THEY DOFIELD/INDUSTRYFOUNDER, FREELANCER OR FULL TIME (We're using "Full Time" to denote all steady employment that isn't freelance or founder based).FOUNDED/CREATEDKEY MEDIABOOK RECEVERYONE SHOULD READREADING STRATEGYNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSAPPSTRAIN OR PLANERABBIT HOLEPLACE YOU SHOULD VISITOTHER
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101Maud PasturaudParisTech startup advisor specializing in growth marketing. Currently growth advisor at PhotoRoomTech, startups, VCFreelancer, full time/DIET APPROACH: Newsletters in the morning, podcasts any time I am moving, books, and long-form content on weekends


MEDIA: Morning Brew, Hustle, Bankless (Web 3), HighSnobiety and BoF (culture/fashion), or Robinhood Snacks (finance), The Economist, Ana Andjelic’s Sociology of Business offers incredible frameworks for brand and marketing, First Round Review and NFX ‘s Founder library for tech.
LAST: "The Longevity Code "by Dr Kris Verburgh,


NOW: “The Changing World Order” by Ray Dalio, “Genomics and Personalized Medicine, what everyone needs to know” by Michael Snyder, David A Sinclair’s “Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To."
The Longevity Code by Dr Kris Verburgh/Morning Brew and Hustle, Bankless (Web 3), Highsnobiety and BoF (culture/fashion), or Robinhood Snacks (finance) and Ana Andjelic’s Sociology of Business.Peter Attia for all things longevity and functional health, Kevin Rose’s Modern Finance for some (often humbling) Web 3.0 masterclasses, Sam Harris’ Making Sense for modern philosophy.Opal to keep my phone and social media consumption in check :) It disables a bunch of useless apps that distract you from being present and doing deep work.

Zero to track my fasts (fasting is one of the most powerful things you can do for your longevity!).
TrainDAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations)The Jardin du Palais Royal in Paris. A hidden gem. A masterpiece of Parisian architecture that feels secretive, intimate. My favorite place in Paris.

One place you should stay - Mexico City
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102Van JensenAtlantaComic book writer, author, substack creator, filmmaker, co-founder, Eon RiftMedia, entertainment, creative storytellingFounder, freelancerCo-founder, Eon Rift. Substack: vanjensen.substack.comDIET APPROACH: Kicks off with basketball news at The Athletic and Dan Devine’s coverage at The Ringer.

Print subs: Sunday New York Times, the New Yorker, the Oxford American and Atlanta magazine

Digital subs: the Washington Post and Atlanta Journal-Constitution
LAST: "The Sisters Brothers" by Patrick deWitt

NOW: Octavia Butler’s Parable books (Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents). Starting The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott, a beautiful graphic novel by British creator Zoe Thorogood. Then Black Elk Speaks, which is the great Sioux leader’s personal history and explanation of Lakota history and spirituality.
My former colleague Rachael Maddux. Rachael is one of the best, if not the very best, writers I’ve worked with. She has a newsletter about death (and other things) that is good enough that when a new edition arrives, I’m glad to see my inbox expand. I can’t say that about much else.
Back to front, short and long pieces concurrently//SkyView. It’s essentially AR-enhanced stargazing. You can hold it up to the night sky, and it shows the stars, planets and even satellites that are in view.PlaneParapsychology, i.e. ESP. I've visited the college a couple of times, and I've also read probably 30-40 books on the topic. All I will tell you is that telepathy is absolutely, undeniably real. Also, if you ever try a heavy dose of psilocybin, for God’s sake use a guide.Favorite place in Atlanta (and maybe the world) is the Center for Puppetry Arts.
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103Theresa and Corinna WilliamsBrooklynEntrepreneurs, sisters, founders of Celsious, an elevated laundry experienceFashion, garment careFounderCelsious, which is on a mission to provide “a cleaner clean” – through an elevated laundry experienceDIET APPROACH: Podcast-focused (Corinna) and dominated by mindful evening reading (Theresa).

MEDIA: Daily news via NPR Up First and the New York Times’ The Daily podcast. Saturday mornings are reserved for Air Mail’s brilliantly entertaining Morning Meeting

NY Times Newsletter by David Leonhardt when going through my morning emails. After eliminating screen time, I now spend most of my evenings reading, both fiction and non-fiction. On my days off I will scroll through my News+ Magazines with Architectural Digest, Wallpaper, New York Magazine, Fast Company, and Scientific American probably being my most read.
LAST (C): "The Vanishing Half" by Brit Bennett – a novel that trails the lives of twin sisters from a fictional town in the South that is reserved for Black people with light skin. Simultaneously, and in very stark contrast: Cerebro Frito, a romp of a novella by a friend of mine, Lukas Kubina

LAST (T):
"Humankind: A Hopeful History" by Rutger Bregman.

NOW: "Der Schwimmer" by Zsuzsa Bank (C) and Dune (T)
Haruki Murakami (T), Kafka (C)Check ToC (C), skim and select (T)NY Times Newsletter by David LeonhardtNPR Up First , The New York Times’ The Daily podcast. Saturday mornings are reserved for Air Mail’s brilliantly entertaining Morning MeetingHuckleberry for baby sleeping. (C)

Musescore, a platform where transcribers and composers can share their sheet music. I'll throw in a second one for everybody NYC-based: DeliverZero, a food delivery platform that facilitates the use of reusable containers, eliminating the majority of the plastic waste that comes with getting takeout. (T)
Both, and neitherMostly baby gear-related (C)

Indoor plants and gardening ( At the peak I spent entire evenings scrolling through “rare” plant listings on Etsy, binge-watching plant Youtubers, reading articles on propagation methods, soil chemistry, root health, footcandle requirements, pest pressures. (T)
Naples and Sicily, Italy (C)
Naoshima, Japan (T)
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104Kurt SlanakerLos Angeles & New YorkDirector for Brand Portfolio and Partnerships, the Americas, for Design Hotels TM , relationship architect and business developerTech, community building, hospitalityFull time/APPROACH: Audiobook heavy. I sporadically check in on Twitter for tech and finance thoughts and look towards newsletters for my main source of ideas, references, and news.

We only subscribe to a few print publications — The Surfer’s Journal, The NY Times Sunday Edition, Carla, The Motoring Journal, and Monocle, as we've become more intentional with our consumption habits, but also pick up a copy of magazines like The Mr. Porter Post, Peddler Journal, The Paris Review, and Surface

NOW: J. Paul Getty’s “As I See It.”

LAST: Malcolm Gladwell’s “Talking to Strangers”
Annie Cohen-Solal is a brilliant researcher and historian and tells amazing stories from facts and first-hand accounts she personally takes the time to educate herself on. If there’s one author I could read in perpetuity, it would be Annie and her collection of stunning literature that showcase European and American cultureSkim and selecta16z’s Future, HBR, Rest of World, Chinese Characters, Flow State, Nice Try Bro, HEATED, BIG Anti-Monopoly Journalism, The Art of Noticing, Craig Mod and StrictlyVC(Audiobooks) “Good Economics for Hard Times” by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, “Eat A Peach” by David Chang, “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol” by the man himself, “Never Split the Difference” by Chris Voss, “The Way of Zen” by Alan Watts, and “Barbarian Days” by William Finnegan.Renpho, for personal health milestonesTrainI haven’t fallen into a rabbit hole in 2022 — the closest I got was Ryan Petersen’s Twitter maybe saved Christmas, at least yet. But I have an inclination it will be about the development — both commercial and residential, of Malibu. But as I’m reading a book about the relationship and history of cocaine and a sport, I started looking at old Coca-Cola ads and stumbled across this absolute gem of an ad, which I can’t help but think the soldier is more interested in a powder, not liquid substance. (KS)Casa Mãe in Lagos, Portugal
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105Randa SakallahNew York Former product manager, now columnist, and creator of Hot Singles.Media, digital communityFounder, freelanceHot Singles, a newsletter and community that makes dating fun. DIET APPROACH: pyramidal


Grains: Twitter and Instagram. Even though I'm always talking about how I'm gonna become a luddite. On Twitter, I'd say I'm somewhere between tech, media, and memes. On Instagram I am watching Tinx stories and what I eat in a day videos.

Vegetables: Culture, advice, and philosophy-esque newsletters like Default Wisdom, Bookbear Express, and The Cereal Aisle.

Fruit: Q&As with creative people on sites like Passerbuys and The Creative Independent.

Dairy: Podcasts like Longform and curated playlists like Naomi Zeichner NTS Radio show.

Protein: Culture stuff that is harder for me to comprehend like Dean Kissick’s column in Spike or anything in Real Life Mag.

Fats, Oils, and Sweets: Actual books… I used to read books way more but my attention span has been utterly compromised.

I only read one print publication and it’s Gossamer magazine
LAST: "Loneliest Americans" by Jay Caspian Kang

NOW: "The Art of Gathering" by Priya Parke and Get Together: How to Build a Community with Your People."

I joke that my favorite genre is navel-gazing. But like, philosophical navel-gazing. My favorite underrated philosophical navel-gazers are May Sarton (dead) and Sheila Heti (very much alive and about to release a new book). This isn’t to say that people should be reading them, but if you like to think about thinking and feeling then you might like their stuff. I loved Journal of a Solitude and How Should a Person Be?

Also, I am always recommending Cal Newport for his takes on modern work culture. He has a column in the New Yorker and also a bunch of books. I think people originally dismissed him as a promoter of toxic productivity but he actually just wants people to spend their time intentionally. I aspire to his lifestyle.
Cover to cover (of Gossamer magazine)Default Wisdom, Bookbear Express, and The Cereal Aisle.Longform and curated playlists like Naomi Zeichner NTS Radio show.My favorite non-famous “app” is my cube timer. I love setting timers for everything. NeitherI love to Google every question that pops into my head but one of my best was probably “are there female incels?” which landed me on the Female Dating Strategy subreddit. Madeleine Holden (one of my fav writers on sex/relationship stuff) did a story on it.To continue my anti-travel tirade, everyone should visit their local spa or bathhouse
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106Anna DoréNew YorkPublicist for Rothy'sFashion, PR, sustainability-circular economyFull time/DIET APPROACH: Audio to start the day (WNYC, Up First, and The Daily.)

Massive fan of newsletters (see list under NEWSLETTERS colum)

In addition to the New York Times Weekend Edition, we subscribe to The New Yorker and a slew of fashion mags + Gossamer print magazine.
LAST: "Color Scheme: An Irreverent History of Art and Pop Culture in Color Palettes "by Edith Young. It’s a delightful read that distills art history and pop culture through pages of color palettes.

NOW: "Crying in H Mart" by Michelle Zauner
Rebecca Jennings at Vox writes an incredible column on all that is The InternetSkim and select (also in reference to Gossamer magazine)WWD and BoF for industry news, Bloomberg and Quartz for business, Cool Hunting and Wallpaper* for design, and N.Y. Today for metro

LeanLuxe and The Sociology of Business for sharp takes on fashion, culture, and luxury.

If it’s Saturday, I'm indulging in Air Mail, Gossamer’s High Praise, and WSJ Mag for some lighter fare

The Page Six newsletter is a true guilty pleasure.
NPR's Up First, NYT's The DailyGoogle TranslatePlaneI’m an interiors nerd and recently pored over decades of vintage IKEA catalogs.Plug for my favorite Astoria Greek taverna, Elias Corner for Fish.
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107Matt RodbardOrange County, NYAuthor, EIC/ founding editor at TASTEFood & wine, media, magazinesFounder, freelancer, full timeTASTE magazineI read the print New York Times on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and New York Magazine on all platforms. I let my Racquet sub slide, which was a mistake. BA, Food and Wine, Milk Street.LAST: Gary Shteyngart, "My Country Friends"
Mike Nichols: A Life by Mark Harris
Hanya head and picked up To Paradise at our local bookstore. A Little Life

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"Several People Are Typing" by Calvin Kasulke
Han Kang's "The White Book"
New York Times reporter Eric Kim has such a cool and honest approach to his essay writing. I have to call out Craig Mod. His recent walk 10-city, 30-day walk across Japan was part journalism, part ethnography, part performance/endurance art piece and was absolutely captivating.Go for the bylinesFor newsletters, I religiously read anything Craig Mod and Kara Swisher writes, WITI (obvs, and thank you), The Ankler, The Small Bow, The Monocle Weekend Edition (mainly salty Andrew Tuck on Saturdays and spicy Tyler Brûlé on Sundays), and the New York Times The Morning and Theater Update.

For food, I subscribe and regularly read Vittles, Alison Roman’s A Newsletter, Family Meal, Alicia Kennedy, Ruth Reichl's La Briffe, NYT Cooking (special shoutout to Tejal Rao’s The Veggie), Five Things I Ate, Snack Cart, David Lebovitz, L.A. Taco, Eat Voraciously, and Stained Pages News.
Pivot. Scott Galloway and Kara Swisher.
The Ringer podcast multiverse, and I thoroughly enjoy The Watch and The Big Picture.
The Hollywood (with a conscious) vibe of Scriptnotes.
How Long Gone. I’ll drop most things for a new Acquired episode and will drop all things for the unfolding Dead Eyes saga.

Evan Kleiman on Good Food, Francis Lam on Splendid Table, Dan Pashman on Sporkful, David Chang and Chris Ying together on mic on the David Chang Show, and the duo on A Hog Dog Is a Sandwich.
BestParkingPlaneThe Canadian band, SloanKorea
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108Dania ShihabBetween Tasmania and BarcelonaEmergency doctor and founder of music platform Paralaxe EditionsMedicine, music, mediaFounderParalaxe Editions, a platform that makes tapes/records/books, puts on experimental music shows, and also has a monthly radio show on dublab.For Music: The Wire is my favourite print publication. I subscribe to DivKid's and Loopop's modular synth/music gear Patreons and always look at what Hainbach is doing on YouTube for weird electronic music experimentation. I also read and post on the Modwiggler (modular synthesis) and Gearspace (production and music tech) forums.

For medical: I read the Life in the Fast Lane blog, subscribe to Uptodate, and listen to EM:RAP, an emergency medicine podcast. I also love GomerBlog, which is like The Onion but for doctors. The name comes from the word “gomer,” which stands for “get out of my emergency room,” a phrase taken from Samuel Shem’s House of God, a must-read book that’s something of right of passage for all doctors.

Literature: I have an account on Goodreads, where I follow friends to see what their latest reads and recommendations are.
LAST: "My Year of Rest and Relaxation" by Ottessa Moshfegh.
NOW: "Real Estate" by Deborah Levy, "Invisible Cities "by Italo Calvino, A Tapestry of Contemporary Iraqi Poetry by Inaam Al-Hashimi, and Conversations with Iannis Xenakis by Bàlint András Varga
I actually read a lot of photobooks. I got caught up in the self-publishing wave that started a few years back and became an avid photobook reader and collector. My habit has slowed down somewhat in the last couple of years, mostly because I live in an apartment and I'm running out of shelf space! That being said, I'll still buy very special books, and one that I can recommend is Hoda Ashfar's Speak the Wind, which focuses on the inhabitants of Hormuz Island in the Persian Gulf (between Oman and Iran). The earth there is bright blood-red; it’s such an incredible landscape, and I would love to visit one day.Skim and select (for writers and stories of interest)//Evernote. I keep all my personal medical notes on here, so they’re easy to access when I'm at work and on the go. I have a lot of notes in basic dot points, along with pages of ‘cheat sheets’ with drug dosages for certain procedures, checklists, that sort of thing. It's quite handy because when you need a quick answer to a medical question, wading through journals or websites can take a while, and as you can imagine, working in the emergency department is a time-critical job.Train for the nostalgic Agatha Christie vibe, plane for convenience.Watching videos on modular synthesis, but during one particularly bad bout of insomnia, I got really into Greek architecture and became a mini-expert on the Parthenon.Walls of Jerusalem National Park in Tasmania
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109Jason CharlesCaliforniaWinery owner, Vinca Minor WinesFood & wineFounderVinca Minor WineNytimes, SF Chronicle, and InstagramLAST: A Really Big Lunch by Jim Harrison
NOW: Poetry Is Growing in Our Garden by Anders Frederik Steen.
The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry MillerSkim and select///TrainThe grape VermentinoCorsica
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110Toby HarndenVirginiaAuthor and former foreign correspondent for The Sunday Times of London and The Daily TelegraphMediaFreelance/I subscribe to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and The Times of London and often dip into those. At the start of the day, I get an Associated Press email that is very useful and I really enjoy Bill Murphy's Understandably.com newsletter.
The aggregation sites Memorandum and Drudge Report are always a quick way of catching up. I'm increasingly drawn to Instagram and I now listen to a ton of podcasts about all sorts of stuff—these two things I find to be an antidote to the glibness and fury of Twitter,

LAST: "Killing Rage" by Eamon Collins

NOW: "In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex" by Nathaniel Philbrick. Also on the go: "Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders"(1974); Incident at Muc Wa: A Story of the Vietnam War (1967) by Daniel Ford; and the newly-released Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior by Ric Prado.
Books, printed on paper. I find it astonishing to go into houses and see a complete absence of books. There is something about the physical impact of a book—the dust jacket, the texture, the quality of the pages, the maps, the ability to scrawl in the margins (in 2B pencil) and insert bits of paper as labels—that cannot be replicated in e-books and audioSkim and select//It isn't an app but I use this site so often that it has its own icon on my phone—Bookfinder.com.TrainVideos of small children playing with dead squirrelsThe island of Nevis in the Caribbean
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111Chris PapasaderoNew YorkChief Commercial Officer for a commercial intelligence company. Previously in the armyIntelligenceFull time/My media diet isn’t publications, it’s people. I like to outsource my thinking to people who are smarter than me on a thing, I think it’s better than having to sift through the opinions of strangers. A few of my one-on-one discussions have been going on for years, mostly via email:
2 years: a debate about the best BBQ sauce (it’s Franklin’s)
3 years: sharing useful mental models and leadership lessons learned.
10 years: sharing the best places to hunt and fish in Oregon (the Wallowas and the Metoulius)
15 years: swapping inspiration modern designers like Achille Castiglioni and Vernor Panton
20 years: sharing scifi book recommendations (recents: 1, 2, 3)
LAST: I have read and re-read Anathem by Neal Stephenson since it came out

NOW: "The Timeless Way of Building" by Christopher Alexander (RIP) and "A Field Guide to American Houses" by Virginia Savage McAlester
We’ve lost the thread on the very subjects that allowed us to progress as a civilization: everyone should be reading about formal logic, reason, grammar, and rhetoric - your classic trivium. These topics are the only antidote to the post-truth cancer.///The actual phone app probably isn’t famous enough!Plane/The Old Souk in Erbil
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112Armando BellmasNorth CarolinaWriter and creator of music newsletter, EclécticoMedia, musicFounderEclectioOn weekday mornings, still in bed, one of us reaches for our phones and turns on NPR’s Morning Edition. On my way to work, I’ll listen to that day’s song from Ecléctico.
Then, I’ll listen to more music and read newsletters throughout the day. Why is this interesting? (of course) makes me smarter every day. MusicREDEF for music news. Tangle for news and politics. The Browser for articles and essays. I browse ESPN and the MLB app for baseball news and Axios Charlotte and Queen City Nerve for local fare.
LAST: I Came All This Way to Meet You by Jami Attenberg.

NOW: How Music Works by David Byrne.
David Yaffe’s newsletterSkim and selectOther newsletters and writers I dig include The Small Bow, Rob Walker, Damon Krukowski, Sasha Frere-Jones, Ted Gioia, Alan Jacobs, and Ray Padgett’s Bob Dylan newsletter, Flagging Down the Double E’s./I love The New York Times Cooking appPlaneCoffee roasting at homeThe Barnacle Historic State Park in Miami’s Coconut Grove
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113Mary ChildsVirginiaCohost of Planet Money, FT alum, author of The Bond KingMedia, radioFull timeI spend too much time on Twitter. I like Future Earth on Instagram, especially for Good News Tuesday; my friend Sophia Li’s Instagram is also a place I look to for constructive and occasionally uplifting climate/environment-related news and thoughts. Jeremy O. Harris’s “coronavirus mixtapes” are not NOT an important source of news for me.

Increasingly I find myself going straight to the front page of news organizations (NY Mag, FT, NPR, WSJ, NYT, Bloomberg), to get a broader look at what’s going on and to keep an eye on how different institutions are translating events or weighting their significance.
LAST: Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart,

NOW: Olga Dies Dreaming!! I’m looking forward to reading Nazi Billionaires.
Ellen Huet!!Flip through and stop when I feel like it. My friend Matt Levine’s Money Stuff is appointment reading for everyone in our industry. I rely on Need 2 Know for a broad sweep of mainstream cultural news that I otherwise frequently miss. I like LitHub’s newsletter to keep my brain alive. I also subscribe to: Today in Tabs, Hunter Harris, Dirt, The Diff, my friend Wagatwe Wanjuki’s Patreon, Garbage Day, The Main Event by stacy-marie ishmael, The Overshoot by Matt Klein, Edith Zimmerman, Mike Solana, Adam Tooze, Emily Oster, Emily Gould, Zeynep Tufekci, Katelyn Jetelina from Your Local Epidemiologist, Ryan Avent from The Bellows, The Microdose….Good old-fashioned NPR a lot. All Things Considered and Morning Edition are just good. I love a good member-station show like 1A and Full Disclosure. I listen to a lot of podcasts, though not as frequently as I'd like: I love Odd Lots, the New Bazaar, Song Exploder, Reply All, It’s Been a Minute, What’s Your Problem with Jacob Goldstein, Slate Money. I haven’t yet but people keep telling me to listen to Normal Gossip./TrainWhile a full-time financial reporter, I once spent three days researching the nightclub shooting that involved Diddy, JLo, and Shyne. I could find no way to make this useful to my job. I just needed to understand what happenedRichmond, Virginia
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114Alex ThebezNew YorkHead of Community at Here, a wonderfully weird video canvas appSocial media, techFull time/For reading, I use Feedly pretty regularly, to stay on top of my regular websites that I frequent (Verge, Polygon, Vox) in addition to a couple of blogs (like Kottke) so I can see them all in one place. For things that require subscriptions, I read most of the things on Apple News+. We still get the weekend edition of the New York Times

I spend a lot of time kind of wandering online, so things that I find online I usually save to my Pocket and my Are.na accounts. This includes things that I find on Twitter, Instagram, or anything else.

Most importantly though, I get updates or sparks from my friends through group chats. I am on Discord, where some of my more nerdy friends and I share links on our private server. On Discord, we would talk through more tech, and business things with memes interspersed throughout. Then I also have a Whatsapp group, with a different group of friends who talk more about media, politics, movies, and literature
LAST: "Crying in H Mart" by Michelle Zaunerwhich was amazing. In my mind, however, I keep coming back to James Bridle's "The New Dark Age" and Eka Kurniawan’s "Beauty is a Wound."

NOW: The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst, Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong, My Hero Academia Vigilantes.
People should definitely check out Long Lead, a beautifully designed new project that highlights interesting in-depth journalism.Intuition-based, whatever catches the eyeAlso read a few newsletters that cover art, culture, the internet, and trends. One of my favorites is Dari Mulut ke Mulut and We, the Citizens.I loved Call Your Girlfriend and am a loyal fan of Pivot, Invisibilia, La Culturistas and Keep It.I love Libby. Honestly, I have been spending a lot of time back on Tumblr again, as well. Also, I am a loyal fan of Feedly, Pocket, Day One, and 1 Second Everyday.TrainI love pixel art, which has a wonderful thriving community both on Twitter and Instagram.Anywhere that would challenge their preconceived notions of who they are, put them in a place of discomfort. Somewhere where they are not the majority.
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115Cody MinNew YorkOwner of Astronaut Monastery, venture partner with Riverside Ventures, an early-stage VCDesign, VC, creative servicesFounder Astronaut Monastery, a creative studio servicing clients at the forefront of art, culture, design, commerce, and technologyThe one newsletter I will ALWAYS endorse is The Weekend Reader by Maxwell Anderson. Maxwell takes a topic he’s interested in (weekly), does a deep dive on various views, perspectives, etc, and allows his audience to make decisions for themselves. Trump, Ukraine, Education, etc. It’s fascinating, smart, and takes a subway ride to read. I do also read through Lean Luxe and I pretend to read the Monocle Minute, Term Sheet,LAST: The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer
NOW: Death on the Nile, Agatha Christie.
Maxwell Anderson, as mentioned above. Also love Keith Mcnally's insane takes on IG and Nassim Taleb, who is sort of the Keith Mcnally of economicsSkim for the visuals, then go cover to coverThe Weekend Reader by Maxwell Anderson/Booking a cab with the Curb appTrainI think my media diet is mostly centered on a lot of Wikipedia deep dives
My deep dives are usually centered around a random thought like “why is it called a ‘butcher stripe’” (the answer: there were very specific types of stripes that denoted the type of butcher — pinstripes delineated an apprentice from a master butcher, hence the phrase “earn your stripes”
Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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132Nick CatucciNew YorkSenior Editor, Newsletters at The Atlantic. Co-founder, EmbeddedMedia, magazinesFounder, full timeEmbedded substack, essential guide to what's good on the internet, by Kate Lindsay and Nick CatucciFor music coverage, I often read Stereogum, which I particularly love for Tom Breihan's monthly column on hardcore, Band To Watch (the most legit franchise of its kind), and its amusing news-aggregation Instagram. (I'm also excited about Jason Buford's new column.) I get rap news and gossip from various Instagram aggregators. And I read and follow Alphonse Pierre, Cat Zhang, Jon Caramanica, Joe Coscarelli and other writers.LAST: The Comedy Is Finished by Donald Westlake

NOW: The Girl Who Played With Fire by Steig Larsson
A.J. Daulerio and Edith Zimmerman at The Small Bow, Edith again with Drawing Links, Max Read, Sasha Frere-Jones, Parker Molloy, Luke O'Neil, Robert Christgau, the aforementioned blog newsletters, and everyone at Stereogum, which recently launched a subscription option.Wait for quiet time, then skim and selectNaturally I'm signed up for a lot of Substacks and other indie newsletters. Like everyone else who would have subscribed to The Observer and Spy, Wired, and GQ and Details in their heydays, I read most editions of Today in Tabs, Platformer, and Blackbird Spyplane. Likewise Garbage Day, although it's hard to say what its equivalent would have been ... peak-era Spin? And The Present Age With Parker Molloy—maybe that's The Village Voice?

There are the blog newsletters, like Internet Princess by Rayne Fisher-Quann, Evil Female, and Memeforum, which are incredibly exciting to read and see grow. And the Mainstream Media newsletters, especially from The New York Times and New York magazine, that I keep tabs on.
/Libby, AirNowTrainHodinkee, buying a second-hand watchCellar Stories Bookstore in Providence, RI.
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134David ChoNew YorkMedia, consultant, founder of Postcard (beta)Media, techFounder, freelancePostcard There are some tabs that I for whatever reason keep open forever because I just like to revisit them once every few months: The NYT interactive about Jasper Johns’ work, the official Christo and Jeanne-Claude recap for Floating PiersBad City by Paul Pringle and On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong.I think Ryan Broderick’s Garbage Day is the most interesting, informed, and media/internet literate thing I read in a week

Brian Morrissey’s newsletter The Rebooting is also really smart, but with a much more narrow scope as it’s specifically about how media businesses are run

I also really like Max Read’s newsletter
I think Ryan Broderick’s Garbage Day is the most interesting, informed, and media/internet literate thing I read in a week

Brian Morrissey’s newsletter The Rebooting is also really smart, but with a much more narrow scope as it’s specifically about how media businesses are run

I also really like Max Read’s newsletter
I’ve really been enjoying Paul Scheer and Amy Nicholson’s Unspooled, as well as Dave Chen’s recap podcasts for various TV shows and his long running movie podcast The Filmcast/TrainI’ve really gotten into a lot of the weird niche Tiktok accounts that explain sleight of hand magic tricksA place like Marfa, that Donald Judd built with the intention of making permanent art away from all people, or Naoshima, an island town in Japan where Tadao Ando has installed forever works from James Turrell, Lee Ufan, and Claude Monet, fit the bill for me. Obviously, to that note, a place I’d love to go when possible is Roden Crater by Turrell as well (below).
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136Aimee YangLos AngelesFounder, BetterBrandFoodFounderBetterbrand, designing a better future of foodOn the business end, I love to skim the front pages of Fast Co, Forbes, Inc, and I have subscriptions to The NYT, New Yorker, and The Atlantic for news. As a start up founder, I also find newsletters from Crunchbase and Pitchbook helpful ways to stay plugged in with the industry.I recently finished Ashlee Vance’s book on Elon Musk - “Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, And The Quest For A Fantastic Future

I’m currently reading Indra Nooyi’s memoir - ‘My Life in Full’. For those who don’t know, Indra Nooyi was the CEO of PepsiCo for over 10 years

Vogue for fashion, Architectural Digest for interiors
I think people should try to dig deeper to understand the frames of thought that drove the creation of the things they love! As an example, I used to go to Disney World with my family every year growing up. Reading Roger Iger’s book - The Ride of a Lifetime of his 15 years as the CEO of Disney really brought an additional layer of understanding and perspective into the level of thoughtfulness, commitment and care that it takes to build an incredible establishmentskim and select/I love to fill drives with podcasts - The Daily, How I Built This, Why Is This Happening, This Week in Start Ups among favoritesThe Pattern is great. It's an astrological based app that helps provide time based information about yourself, and those around you.PlaneIG videosLondon
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138W. David MarxTokyoAuthorMedia, journalismFreelance/My weekly political podcast consumption is now limited to Brooks and Capehart on PBS Newshour

Otherwise I get my daily news from Twitter, which I read in backwards-chronological order, because I don’t trust the algorithmic setting to show me everything

The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, New York Magazine (especially Vulture), and Vox’s The Goods.
Leonard B Meyer’s Music, the Arts, and Ideas from 1967
Barbara Tuchman’s The Guns of August, Richard Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach, Jean Baudrillard’s Symbolic Exchange and Death, Richard Rorty’s Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, Benjamin Nathans’s Beyond the Pale on Eastern European Jews in the 19th century, and the upcoming book Merchants of Style by Natasha Degen on art and fashion post-Warhol.

I generally read two or three books simultaneously (one non-fiction for research, one fiction in my 14-year project of going through the most famous 20th century novels in chronological order, and maybe a lighter one “for fun”)
I’m a big fan of Amanda Mull (The Atlantic), Rebecca Jennings (VOX), Kyle Chayka (The New Yorker), and Ryan Broderick and Allegra Rosenberg (Garbage Day)

I also recommend people return to mid-century nonfiction and cultural theory, as these books are always more subtle and complicated than how they are summarized in passing. And writers like Hannah Arendt, Daniel Bell, and Arthur Danto predicted our current cultural moment better than you’d imagine.

I also recommend reading books that posit theories you don’t agree with. I strongly believe that aesthetics are fully social constructs and not related to evolutionary psychology, but I thought David Rothenberg’s Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science, and Beauty was very interesting and gave me a deeper perspective on the entire subject.
Skim cover to cover, then selectBenedict Evans, Garbage Day, Blackbird Spyplane, and Dirt (which I sometimes write for). I enjoy balancing those with more personal newsletters from Craig Mod, The Melt by Jason Diamond, A Continuous Lean, and David Coggins’ The Contender to name a few./BPMTapTrainGenealogical researchKobe is Japan’s most underappreciated city
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140Kyle ChaykaDCJournalist, author, newsletter co-founderMediaFounderStudyHall, DirtNewsletters are a great non-algorithmic source of info; I find myself reading the Monocle newsletter almost every day. It has a great mix of subject matters — design, politics, travel — which you need when an algorithm isn't curating the perfect mix for you. (Did algorithmic feeds kill the general-interest publication?) I've been using Discord a ton as well, joining different communities to address different interests.

Monocle.
Email newsletters have replaced print magazines as my favorite container for the identity of a publication — they arrive consistently, present a limited format, and showcase a strong editorial sensibility.
LAST: Orlando Figes's The Europeans.

NOW: Byung Chul-Han's short book Non-Things. Essentially, his argument is that non-physical information — a la the internet — has crowded out the physical objects and experiences in our lives, and it's a downgrade. Feels very true!
Terry NguyenLook for the bylines I’m interested in in the TOC and start with those pieces or just flip through randomly,/BeRealTrainWok cookingBarcelona, the group of vermouth bars Morro Fi
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142Marc PolymeropoulosVirginiaCIA case officer, author, consultantIntelligence, mediaFull time/Morning Joe, Twitter, a quick read of headlines in the Washington Post, NY Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, and then Fox. The Economist is always fantastic. LAST: Damascus Station.

NOW: "Victor in Trouble" by Alex Finley
“Puck.” A newsletter that dissects the unique intersection between politics, the media, and the entertainment world./“Puck.” A newsletter that dissects the unique intersection between politics, the media, and the entertainment world.Soundcloud.PlaneDrinking to relieve my chronic painArlington National Cemetery
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144Hamish SmythNew YorkGraphic designer, co-founder of three design startups: Standards Manual, Order and StandardsGraphic design, publishingFounderStandards Manual, a publishing imprint,
Order, a design studio
Standards
, a tool for designers to build and publish online brand guidelines.
WSJ, NYT, Financial Times, National Review, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, BBC, SBS (Australia), PBS, and then a whole lot of random outlets from Twitter. New Yorker.

Opening up my sources and feeding my then dormant curiosity made me so much better at my job. I believe linking disparate ideas can help you solve problems in some of the most creative ways. Sometimes the most obscure reference can find its way from my subconscious, into the problem at hand, and create a breakthrough. When that happens, it’s thrilling, and it only makes me more curious.
LAST: Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest
NOW: Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
/Historically cover to coverEvery (a client of Order) is a newsletter I love.Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History “Blueprint for Armageddon” series.
In Depth from First Round has been a great resource.
Timedash. It’s a little widget app for weather, time, and other thingsPerfecting cheese burgers and friesMy favorite place in the world is a ski town called Falls Creek in the Australian Alps
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146Megan GibsonLondonJournalist and international editor at The New StatesmanMedia, journalismFull time/The Financial Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic and The New York Times, so I check their sites every morning and often throughout the day. I also regularly browse The Guardian, New York Mag, The Globe and Mail, Foreign Policy, Bloomberg, Politico and Gawker.

Then there’s the sites I try to check in on semi-regularly: the English versions of foreign papers, like Le Monde and El Pais; Hazlitt; The New Republic; The Nation; LRB; NYRB; The Diplomat; and War on the Rocks

At the moment I only have print subscriptions to The New Yorker and The New Statesman (gotta support the team), but I will buy the London Review of Books, The Gentlewoman, The Economist, Businessweek and Vanity Fair on the newsstand

I rely on Twitter for any news, features, theories, clips and gossip that I haven’t come across elsewhere.
My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley.
Annie Ernaux’s Happening (lol, I know! But better late than never, right?); Some Trick, Helen DeWitt’s short story collection; and Persepolis, a graphic memoir by Marjane Satrapi
Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson, which I really enjoyed.
Gwendoline Riley!I skim the contents and then flip to the pieces by the writers I admire mostPolitico’s London Playbook, WaPo’s Today’s World View, Matt Levine’s Money Stuff, and The Monocle Minute. I also read Substacks by Adam Tooze, Edith Zimmerman, Lawrence and Sam Freedman, Meghan Daum, John Ganz, Lauren Collins, Mary Gaitskill, Alison Roman and Alicia Kennedy. Oh, and I also love Nathan Ma’s Furniture for All.When I cook I’ll listen to an episode of Longform, How Long Gone, Know Your Enemy, Normal Gossip or Desert Island Discs. Because my husband is such a fan, I’ve also dipped into the Jokermen podcast/Train, or long-haul flightI am obsessed with literary and media rivalries (historical or contemporary). So when Vanity Fair recently published a wild piece about the not-overly-fond friendship between Joan Didion and Eve BabitzHelsinki
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148Matthew WeaverThe American midwestFormerly worked for the US digital service, currently at Layer AlephSystems, governmentFull time/Unless I'm traveling and pick up a Sunday FT or this week's Economist to read while waiting, my main source of news is the BBC World Service's Global News Podcast.

The space left by my secession from social media is filled by various group chats with my closest friends, colleagues, and various mindshares, mostly using iMessage or Signal. Some Discord, now, in the past year.

For either of my favorite publications – The Economist (180 years in publication), or The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Emily Wilson's fantastic 2017 translation of "The Odyssey"

Josiah Ober's "The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece"
My hope is that more folks read Joseph Henrich. An anthropologist, he's studied the evolution of cooperation, including running behavior experiments around game theory fundamentals across a vast array of different human societies.Review the ToC, eye out bylines of interest, then cover to coverWITI (of course), The Prepared, Matt Levine's Money Stuff (via email!), The Hundred, Craig Mod's Roden and Ridgeline, Ganzeer's Restricted Frequency, Deb Chachra's Metafoundary, and I just started giving Matt Tait's (pwnallthethings) move to newsletters a shot. Robert Spangle doesn't publish them frequently, but I never miss any of his Observations.

I've two graphic novel/comic inputs right now. Lordess Fourde's serial THE PHANTOM PLEASURE, and Dorothy Gambrell's "internet workaround" quarterly zine of Cat and Girl comics (plus extras
/Echoes. It's a front end to the sprawling array of content that spills out of John Diliberto's decades-old radio showTrainI found out that Martin Luther wrote treatises from hiding after the Diet of Worms (which put a price on his head), answering questions – a sort of "Dear Luther" column.The Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast in the Pamir mountains of Tajikistan, adjacent to the Chinese and Afghani borders, a short distance from Pakistan.
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150Abby RapoportAustinPublisherMedia, editorialFounderStranger’s Guide publicationHomepages of CNN, the Washington Post and the NYTimes a couple times each day.

For basic knowledge: The Monocle Minute, the NYTimes’ The Morning and the Texas Tribune’s The Brief most mornings

Others: Delayed Gratification, a British publication that fights the 24-hour news cycle through in-depth looks at the issues that dominated headlines three months earlier; Anne Trubek’s Notes from a Small Press. For good media reporting, I try to make sure I don’t miss any work by Clare Malone.

Throughout each week, I nearly always read Girl’s Night In, Cup of Jo and A Thing or Two, and The Browser, which identifies great, often idiosyncratic essays around the internet. There’s also, Vittles, on food and culture, and perhaps best of all Dearest which delves into interesting antique jewelry being sold at auction.

We get the print versions of Jewish Currents, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, the London Review of Books, the New Yorker and Science.
Persuasion, Shine On Bright and Dangerous Object by Laurie ColwinWell, self-interestedly, I'd say Stranger's Guide; I think we’re doing something unique and interesting and our latest guide on Ukraine and its recent post-Maidan history is, I think, among the best collections we’ve published. But in particular, I’d highlight works by Courtney Desiree Morris and Haska Shyyan, both of whom are spectacular essayists. Everyone should follow them and read whatever they publish.

While I think plenty of people are reading them, I also think John Ganz and Anand Giridharadas are doing some of the more interesting social commentary around and more people should be reading their work.
Skim and selectFor basic knowledge, I tend to read some combination of The Monocle Minute, the NYTimes’ The Morning and the Texas Tribune’s The Brief most mornings/The Balance meditation appTrain/
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116Tyler BainbridgeNew YorkCo-founder of Perfectly Imperfect, open-source developer, occasional writer, and photographerMedia, cultureFounder, freelancePerfectly Imperfect is a free newsletter about what people are into, DIET APPROACH: Mostly newsletters, podcasts, (in their respective columns) perusing through Instagram and Twitter (skip to the last column for those recs)

PRINT LOVES: Editorial Mag, Interview Mag, Sex Mag, 032c, Apartamento, Record Mag, The Drunken Canal, or Forever Mag.

OTHER: Letterboxd even if it often pisses me off, and listening to WFMU and NTS Radio.
LAST: Sean Thor Conroe’s "Fuccboi"

NOW: "Meet Me in the Bathroom" about the 2000s New York City music scene
Walter Pearce’s Substack, walt’s Important thoughtsSkim and selectSitting Pretty, Paul From The Bible, Coolstuff.nyc, Hung Up, SNAKE, Writers Life Tips, Public Announcement, Embedded, Magasin, Dirt, 8Ball, Screenslate, walt’s Important thoughts, Deez Links, Angelicism01, Opulent Tips, and Blackbird Spyplane. I’ve been put on to all kinds of stuff from pod Discords and even made some real-life friends through them. My favorites include The Ion Pack, Nymphet Alumni, Red Scare, Wet Brain, How Long Gone, Contain, Director's Commentary, and Throwing Fits.Bear, a notetaking app, BeReal, PocketCasts for podcasts, DarkSky for weather, and 1Password TrainMany a music rabbit hole: Teenage Fanclub, The Replacements, Big Star, The Pillows, Nick Lowe, The Cars, Kleenex Girl Wonder, and The Jam. And Jangle Pop bands such as Felt, The Sundays, Lloyd Cole and The Commotions, The Go-Betweens, The Smiths, The Church, The La’s, and The Cleaners From Venus. (TB)/On Twitter it’s @lunch_enjoyer, @alivegirl001101, @hunteryharris, @patriksandberg, @sartoriallyinc, @dan_allegretto, @bettinamak, @deankissick, @walt_knows_best, @credenzaclear2, @skinnyyoungthug, @mannfacts, @yoloethics, @petcortright, @textile_ranch, @layajospe, @brynntrill2, @frynaomifry, and @mads_foods. I made this list by just scrolling through some of my recent likes so if I missed you, I’m sorry!

And on Instagram it’s @misc_en_scene, @mustarrrrd, @miwasusuda, @frankdorrey, @markfisherquotes, @liana_ava, @servideo, @wetbrainupdates, @brandon.a.mahler, @actorscellectuals, @arnold_daniel, @em.info, @directorfits, @hollywoodgifts99, @kanyewest, @chrismaggio, @tom_tuna_tossed_salad, @intramuralshop, and @favetiktoks420. A good mix of cool people, “meme accounts”, art, fashion, etc.
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117Martin ThörnkvistMalmo, SwedenCurator and context maker. Currently as the COO of Media Evolution and The Conference.Media, community, eventsFreelancer, full time/Sydsvenskan (a local Malmo publication), NYT for global politics and Jason Farago’s writing on art.LAST: "Spring Cannot Be Cancelled" by David Hockney and Martin Gayford

NOW: "Ninth Street Women" by Mary Gabriel about the New York women art scene in the fifties
Shannon Mattern. She keeps bringing me new perspectives on time, human connections, and life in city dwellings. Her writing in Places Journal is a good place to start. ToC review, skim and selectPatrick Tanguay’s Sentiers for systems thinking, Kristoffer Tjalve’s Naive Weekly for all the quirky artsy stuff that people are still making with HTML etc, Lean Luxe and TheFutureParty for an expose of market-driven pop culture, Urban technology at the University of Michigan for commentary in the digital layers of cities, Hyperallergic’s, The Art Newspaper’s and Christie’s (surprisingly good) weekly round-ups for all things art.

For music: Release radar playlist on Spotify and Jakob Åström’s Plays Softly, Flow State.NoneTrainFrank Stella.The Kolumba in Cologne, Beirut
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118Scott NortonLos AngelesEntrepreneur, co-founder of Sir Kensington's and N+1 ventures, investorInvesting, tech, startups, foodFounderSir Kensington's , condiments startup
N+1 ventures, investment company
PRINT:: FT Weekend (delivered), Apartamento, National Geographic, Noble Rot (for wine nerds), and Little White Lies (for film nerds). I used to get The Economist.

DIGITAL: Air Mail (s/o to Bill Keenan), Monocle Weekend Edition, Craig Mod's Roden Explorers, the WSJ app, Lean Luxe of course, and I'm hopelessly addicted to Twitter (@swhnorton). I also like annual shareholder letters as a genre, and of course, Berkshire Hathaway has some great ones.
LAST: "The Secret Life of Grocerie"s by Benjamin Lorr.
NOW: Breakthrough Advertising (now)
Min Jin Lee's book Pachinko: multi-generational historical fiction thriller that begins in Japanese occupied BusanSkim and select/Revisionist History, Reply All which are absolutely sensational.

Doccies: Narco Cultura, The Great Happiness Space, Crip Camp, and Alphago. Love A24's movies and the Safdie Brothers, especially Uncut Gems and its prototype film (if I may call it that) Good Time
Captio, note taking appTrainBike tripHiking the first 100km of the Kungsleden during July or August in the far north of Sweden, within the Arctic Circle.
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119 Saidah BlountNew York Executive Producer of Sonos RadioRadioFull time/Social media heavy; NPR/WNYC in the am, PRINT: The New Yorker, Time, and Smithsonian magazine, DIGI: Maggot Brain, The Creative Independent, and Wax Poetics.LAST: Allow Me To Retort: A Black Guy's Guide To The Constitution by the brilliant Elie Mysta, The Wisteria Society Of Lady Scoundrels by India Holton

NOW: Danyel Smith's newest book, Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop
Ann Powers. Octavia Butler. Stephen Satterfield. Roxane Gay. Samantha Irby. Marlon James. Talia Hibbert. Zadie Smith. ToC review, flip to the back, then middleMusicDef, Refinery29, WSJ, Pitchfork, Blavity, Vulture/The Cut, Hypebeast, Consequence, and The Fader; Food52, Milk Street, Grub Street, The Infatuation, Cherry Bombe/ Co-Star or the Chani app (astrology), route carrier appsPlaneTeddy Pendergrass and his influence on 70s musicMexico City
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120Vivian FuLos AngelesBlogger, photographer, podcast hostPhotography, internet culture, art, nftsFounder, freelance JPEG2000, an NFT podcastDEDICATED SOURCES: Discord, Twitter, and TiktokArt books: American Ecstasy by Barbara Nitke of photographs taken in the 1980s on porn sets; Deana Lawson’s Aperture MonographTexts from their parents tbh.///BeRealNeitherNFTsYour parents house. They miss you and they’re going to die soon.
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121Shawn ReynaldoBarcelona Editor, writer, event creator, music journalist, creator and EIC of First FloorMusic, media, cultureFounder, freelanceFirst Floor, newsletter about electronic music and the culture / industry that surrounds it.Digital subscription to the New York Times, regularly the Guardian
Local: El País and elDiario.es, Twitter
Sports:ESPN, The Ringer and Athletics Nation
the Wire, Pitchfork, Resident Advisor, DJ Mag, Mixmag, Crack, Bandcamp Daily, The Quietus, Beatportal, Ransom Note, Inverted Audio, Stamp the Wax, Dazed, Dummy, The Face, Test Pressing, Attack and 5 Magazine.
LAST: Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy

NOW: Dan Ozzi’s Sellout, nonfiction, industyr
Alexandra Kleeman

Music journalist: Philip Sherburne, Chal Ravens and Gabriel Szatan, David Turner and Cherie Hu, Marc Hogan, Declan McGlynn Liz Pelly, provides vital (and refreshingly optimistic) dispatches from the bleeding edge of music, technology and culture. Jaša Bužinel’s monthly Hyperspecific columns. Elsewhere, Cat Zhang has practically created her own genre while digging into the TikTok landscape and demystifying what exactly Gen Z is up to, and Isabelia Herrera has done similarity groundbreaking (not to mention frequently intensely personal) work while examining the musical exploits of Latin America, the Caribbean and the larger Latin diaspora. Jeremy Larson doesn’t write that often these days—being the Reviews Editor at Pitchfork is a demanding gig—but when he does publish something, it’s always a must-read affair, whether he’s trashing Greta Van Fleet or coming to grips with his own streaming addiction.
Skim and select review ToC, bylines, topicsDavid Turner’s Penny Fractions and Cherie Hu’s Water & Music, Music Journalism Insider This American Life, Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, SmartLess, WTF with Marc Maron, 99% Invisible/ Interdependence podcast, Rave to the Grave NYTTrainBunkka, a pretty awful album that Paul Oakenfold released in 2002.Mexico city, Sicily
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122Juno de MeloPortland, OregonWriter and editorMediaFreelance/DIET DESCRIPTION: A lot of self-flagellation because I’m a compulsive checker of things that absolutely do not need to be checked incessantly or even at all: Twitter, Facebook (for the groups only, I swear), Instagram, the New York Times homepage, the Washington Post homepage, Dlisted. Dedicated subscriber to NY Mag.LAST: I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness.
NOW: Treasure Island
Lydia Kiesling: her novel, her essays, her stories, her Instagram captions. And illustrator and Tuca & Bertie creator Lisa Hanawalt. Tell myself I’ll read it cover to cover, read one boring political front-of-book piece, skip to the profiles, then start reading from the back, again telling myself I’ll read the thing from cover to cover.Jessica DeFino’s beauty-critical newsletter The Unpublishable, Amy Odell’s fashion-critical Back Row, Sara Petersen’s momfluencer-critical In Pursuit of Clean Countertops, and Virginia Sole Smith’s diet-critical Burnt Toast (can you tell that women’s magazines scarred me??). Also Your Local Epidemiologist, Emily Oster’s and Anne Helen Petersen’s newsletters, and the parenting newsletters from The New York Times and The Cut. Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel; Bachelor Party, a Bachelor-recap show; and Table Manners, in which UK singer Jessie Ware and her very lovely mum invite famous people over and cook for them. They have the most delightful voices. I’m a sucker for a host with a good laugh, which is why I listen to three podcasts hosted by The Ringer’s Juliet Litman. Dark Sky PlaneTattoosKauai
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123James BridleGreeceWriter and artist, authorInternet, new techFreelance/APPROACH: Mostly the Guardian, BBC, New York Times, some local news , mostly newsletters

COMMUNITY GO-YO http://infrastructureclub.co.uk

PRINT SUBS: The New Yorker, Verso Book Club, |Salvage Mag
LAST: Mission Box’ by Aris Alexandrou (fiction)

NOW: David Graeber and David Wengrow’s ‘The Dawn of Everything’, an incredible history of human society; Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller’s wonderful ‘Bad Gays’
Claire L. Evans (@theuniverse on Twitter) and reading everything she writes, starting with her book ‘Broad BandSkim and select, go for the shortest first, save the longet for lastThe Prepared and anything Craig Mod sends out (https://craigmod.com/newsletters/),/Marine tracking apps: Flightradar24 and MarineTrafficTrain/Urban sites in Southern Turkey,Çatalhöyük, near Konya, and Göbekli Tepe
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124Lindsay Tuchman AtlantaJournalist, anchor for NewsyMedia, journalismFull time/DIET APPROACH: Twitter first, lots of newsletters, NYT daily, weekend print edition of NYTLAST: First is Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel. Alone with You in the Ether by Olivie Blake. both fiction.

NEW: Book Lovers by Emily Henry (fiction)
NewsySkim and selectCharlie Warzel's Galaxy Brain, Anne Helen Petersen's Culture Study, Haley Nahman's Maybe Baby, Perfectly Imperfect, Today in Tabs, the Atlantic's daily newsletter, Axios Atlanta, Coolstuff.nyc, Mas Vino Please Dax Shepard and Monica Padman's podcast "Armchair Expert."FlightRadar24 100%. PlaneTiktokThe North Fork of Long Island.
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125Brian Morrissey New YorkWriter, founder of The Rebooting.Former EIC at Digiday MediaSustainable media businesses, mediaFounderThe Rebooting, a newsletter and podcast focused on building sustainable media businesses. DIET APPROACH: "Forage widely". Twitter mostly, Financial Times daily, (FT weekend in print), more and more newsletters

TRADITIONAL PUBS: NYT, The Economist, FT etc
LAST: Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order.”

NOW: “Tombstone,” a book about the Great Famine in China in the late 50s-early 60s.
Simon Kuper for FT.Skim and selectThe Morning because David Leonhardt is smart and sane' Bloomberg’s 5 Things; Matt Levine’s Money Stuff. Troy Young’s People vs Algorithms ;Sociology of Business. For publishing news, I like the Press-Gazette. The Athletic and ESPN for sports.Monocle’s newsletters and listening to its Sunday podcast. Derek Thompson’s Plain English, Mike Lombardi’s GM Shuffle and Peter Kafka’s Recode Media./PlaneRunningBeniya Mukayu onsen in Kaga, Japan
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126Zaira Stefani VallejoNew YorkStrategist at RedscoutBranding, creative servicesFull time/DIET APPROACH: Curious, and expansive.

Some go-to’s: FT, Business of Fashion, Napkin Math, and I just discovered The New Consumer. I’m subscribed to a ton of newsletters and those really do scour the web: That Business of Meaning, Public Announcement, and definitely Lean Luxe (+ the community). And, under the guise of work, I’ll get geeky with it and seek out research reports: Wunderman Thompson and honestly, McKinsey.
LAST: Hanya Yanagihara’s latest book, "To Paradise", "How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer "by Sarah Bakewell

NOW: Eve Babitz’s "Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A." and I am rapt. Her prose is simply delicious. It’s all-consuming.
Hubert Selby Jr. He’s probably most known for Requiem for a Dream, which is somehow even more fucked up as a book than it is as a movie (so bleak but so visually arresting), or maybe Last Exit to Brooklyn. Cover to coverThat Business of Meaning, Public Announcement, Lean Luxe/RadioooooIdeally trains, pragmatically planeseBay and psychadelic jazzColombia
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127Yang-Yi GohBrooklynStyle editor, GQMedia, magazinesFull time/NYT, The Globe and Mail, Cartilage Free Captain, Sportsnet, Vulture, The Ringer, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, Av Club, Twitter and IG for style, Popeye and Brutus (For Jpanese menswear), Rachel Tashjian’s fashion criticism for Harper’s Bazaar,LAST: Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove tetralogy
NOW: Dan Ozzi’s Sellout
Phil Schneider’s thoughtful, deeply knowledgeable breakdowns of the week’s best wrestling matches Cover to cover, and quiet time Sitting Pretty, Opulent Tips, Blackbird Spyplane.
No Dunks, The Lowe Post, Men In Blazers, Stadio, The Fighting Cock, The Raptors Show, The Masked Man Show. For pop culture: The Watch, Columbia House Party, The Big Picture, How Did This Get Made. For comedy: Good One, Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, You Made It Weird, Comedy Bang Bang. The entire Wordle universe: Quorlde (four Wordles at once), Heardle (Wordle for music), Framed (Wordle for movies), and Worldle Plane to sleep without missing a stopOld Conan and Letterman merch on eBaySingapore
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128Laura MayerNew YorkPodcast producer and executiveRadio/podcasts, mediaFounder, freelanceLRM.Works, a podcast development studioA LOT of podcasts, a lot of substacks and Twitter.LAST: “The Big Picture: The Fight for the Future of Movies” by Ben Fritz NOW: “Just By Looking at Him” by Ryan O’Connell Consumer Reports! magazine

Cover-to-cover, and benadryl“She’s a Beast: A Swole Woman’s Newsletter”How Long Gone, Normal Gossip.The way for me to really turn my brain off is by playing repetitive, time management games. Your Diners Dash, your Overcookeds etc. Trains for getting work done, planes for anxietyA pregnant giraffe named April who went viral in 2017/
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129Christine Amorose MerrillSan DiegoSpotify exec, podcast adsMusic, salesFounder, Full time C’est Christine, travel and lifestyle siteMostly podcast. Sunday print edition of the New York Times, New York Magazine and San Diego Magazine in print, LAST: Still Life, Apeirogon on the advice of my very well-read in-laws. NOW: I’m also reading a story every night from Just So Stories Atul Gawande's "Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End" Front-to-back for magazines, section specific for some (like Metropolitan Dairy on NYT Sunday Mag)Alison Roman newsletterThe Daily, The Journal, Plain English with Derek Thompson, The Ezra Klein Show and First Person, Ringer Dish, Keep It, Armchair Expert, The Big Picture, Ringer Reality TV Show and You’re Wrong About, This American Life and How I Built This, Criminal and Crime ShowInsight Timer for deep sleep meditationViews and speed of a plane with the boarding experience of a train.None specific, mostly binge an entire podcast series in a dayNational park or some place of great natural beauty, New York City, Slovenia
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130 Bijan ShahvaliNew YorkFounder, IntermuralBrand consulting, design, clothingFounderIntermural which began as an online vintage store and has evolved to also operate as a consultancy helping brands with things like concept development and sourcing design references/archival pieces. New York Times,BBC Newshour, Public Announcement daily newsletter Last: Charlie Porter’s What Artists Wear, Now: Phil Thornton’s Casuals: Football, Fighting & Fashion: The Story of a Terrace Cult, (which explores the subculture of football hooligans in the UK wearing expensive sportswear )Dick Hebdige, whose writing provides a framework for understanding subcultures. His book Cut n Mix is a great exploration into the different subgenres of Carribean musicThumb through the whole thing at least twice taking mental notes for a potential starting place -Public Announcement daily newsletter (news), Blackbird Spyplane (branding), Perfectly Imperfect, Opulent Tips, Herb Sunday Throwing Fits, How Long Gone, Popcast, Bandsplain (the Kool Keith episode is essential listening). I enjoyed Bradley Carbone’s interview on the Art Career Podcast, Lauren Sherman’s The Debrief OverDrive via the Brooklyn Public Library which gives access to thousands of audiobooks for free.Plane for speed and convenience (at this point in my life, I guess I am more interested in getting to places faster )Tags & Threads, which is a rabbit hole of obscure clothing tags and labelsToronto (Eat at Milou. Shop at Better Gift Shop and Lost & Found.)
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131Murray BellSydneyCEO / ECD at Semi-PermanentEvents, experience design, creative servicesFounderSemi-Permanent a global creative platform and experience studioDIET DESCIPTION: Consistent. Trending upwards, but increasingly sporadic patches of nothing.

Weekly breakdown:

Movies - Cinema: 90 mins, Computer: 90 mins
Online articles: 4 - predominantly NYTimes and Stab Mag
Physical books: 2 chapters
Physical magazines: 3 articles
Social media: Almost exclusively Instagram - 18 hours average
Video - YouTube etc: 4 hours, sports streaming: 3 hours

LAST: "After Steve"

NOW: Radiohead’s resident artist Stanley Donwood’s story; the latest edition of Pin Up, Virgil Abloh’s Harvard Law Degree curriculum
For the business leader inclined, try reading "Ride of a Lifetime" by Bob Iger. When there's quiet//Bureau of Meteorology, Surfline PlaneTaika Waititi Oahu, Hawaii, The Flower Shop NYC, Chateau Marmont in LA
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132W. Christine ChoiNew YorkCommunications and brand exec, partner at M13VC, enterpriseFull time/Starts with Twitter for news. Podcasts for news: BBC Global News and The Daily for news, and Pivot and CNBC Squawk PodLAST: Think Again by Adam Grant, The Lonely City by Olivia Liang and Cool Gray City of Love, an ode to wandering in San Francisco by former cabbie Gary Kamiya. The last one is The Extra Woman: How Marjorie Hillis Led a Generation of Women to Live Alone and Like It by Joanna Scutts

NOW: NASA Standards Manual was a recent gift, and I appreciate the rigor. Two collections of writing to exercise my frayed attention span are Ghost Lover by Lisa Taddeo and These Precious Days by Ann Patchett. (plus more)
Less investigative stories and politics and more content about how people live. NYT culture/city critic Ginia Bellafante counts, and I devour her columns.

OTHERS: Broken Palate, Rowan Mangan’s Instagram. Patti Smith, Stewart Copeland.
Go to the go-to sectionsMixing Board BBC Global News and The Daily for news, and Pivot and CNBC Squawk Pod // Psychoactive with Ethan Nadelmann; //. Undistracted with Brittany Packnett Cunningham // How I Built This with Guy Raz // BBC Grounded with Louis Theroux’s // Bewildered with Martha Beck and Rowan Mangan: Fold is a debit card I use to earn satoshis.PlaneGotten into a lot of the weird niche Tiktok accounts that explain sleight of hand magic tricks, but also this one Tumblr account that posts translations and breakdowns of viral content on Douyin, a different social video platform from China which is really hard to explain but you just have to see it. Chile’s Atacama desert.
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133Sue S. ChanNew YorkRestaurant maven, community organizer, connector, producer, founder of Care of ChanFood, community buildingFounderCare of Chan, a food media and culture agency specializing in events, partnerships, and grassroots marketing.NYT, Eater, GrubStreet, The New Yorker's LAST: Priya Parker's The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

NOW: Vivek H. Murthy's Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World. , Chef Keith Corbin's California Soul: An American Epic of Cooking and Survival.
Criterion Collection filmsSkim and select Family Meal newsletter, Lean Luxe, The Sociology of Business, and The New Consumer, Scott GallowayScott Galloway, Pivot/TrainGee's Bend Quilters Collective - tapestriesPantelleria, Italy.
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134Matthew IngramCanadaChief digital writer for the Columbia Journalism ReviewMedia, journalismFull time/Twitter lists for news,

PUBS: NYT, Washington Post, New Yorker, the Atlantic. I like the BBC's international coverage. old school blogs
LAST: Cory Doctorow’s “Walkaway,” and William Gibson’s book “The Peripheral,”

NOW: Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver Baroque trilogy.
Luke O'Neil's newsletter "Welcome to Hell World."Skim and select Luke O'Neil's newsletter "Welcome to Hell World."//BothI found out that even aeronautical engineers aren't 100 percent sure what keeps airplanes in the air. And I learned about Mary Read and Anne Bonny, two women in the 1700s who were not only fearsome pirates but also loversMatera, an ancient city in southern Italy
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135Ari KuschnirLos AngelesDirector, entrepreneur, founder of production company "m ss ng p eces"Media, productionFounderm ss ng p eces a new wave production company.Twitter firstLAST: Thought Forms: A Record of Clairvoyant Investigation by Annie Bessant and C.W. Leadbeater, The Nine Freedoms as channeled by George King

NOW: Gabor Mate’s latest, The Myth of Normal, Trauma, Illness, & Healing in a Toxic Culture BOTH NON-FICTION
Metaphysics content: Tao Te Ching & Bhagavad Gita, Wendell Berry, Poets like Rilke

Wendell Berry: The Need to Be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice
/ Daniel Pinchbeck and Jonathan Harris, and my partner, Schuyler Brown ; The Stoa & Rebel Wisdom and a lot of the players in what Joe Lightfoot calls “The Liminal Web.” /Oura ring app, Brian Eno's Reflection app PlaneThe life of George King, metpahyiscsA holy mountain like Mount Shasta.
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136Lauren GoodeSan FrancsicoWriter, Wired, podcasterMedia, techFull timeTwitter first, lots of newsletters

PUBS: Wired.com, The New York Times (sub), The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic,
LAST: “Normal Family,” by Chrysta Bilton. (Memoir)

NOW: "Meme Wars" by Dr. Joan Donovan, Emily Dreyfuss, and Brian Friedberg
/When I see WIRED on a newsstand, I pick up several more copies, and I place them over the other magazines on the rack.Does that count?Dan Primack and Ina Fried from Axios. Shira Ovide is great. I read Casey Newton because he’s so deeply invested in covering the major tech platforms. I love Anne Helen Petersen’s threads, and how she manages to convince people to not be total butts on the internet. I appreciate Brandon Taylor’s sweater weather, especially his analysis last year of Succession. I sometimes read Noahpinion. Lyz Lenz’s Dingus of the WeekFiasco season 5Surfline, FlorenceTrainFake accounts on dating appsAn unnmaed inn, built in 1937 along the Big Sur coastline
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137Louis CheslawNew York, by way of LondonWriter, NY MagMedia, journalismFull time/PUBS & SUBS; Currently: the weekend Financial Times and New York Times, Jacobin, the London and New York Review of Books, The New Statesman, and L’Étiquette.LAST: Last Resort, by Andrew Lipstein, (fcition)
Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These, (fiction); NOW: Mike Davis’ City of Quartz (non-fiction)
George Saunders (‘Offloading for Mrs. Schwartz’ from CivilWarLand in Bad Decline)Mags: skim and select, newspaper: cover to cover for papersLeanLuxe, Public Announcement, Passerby, Maybe Baby, A Continuous Lean, the Times’ morning briefing,This Jungian Life podcast, Dr Gabor Mate Watcht. and Google ReadsTrainThis Jungian Life podcastStromboli, near Sicily
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138Rafa JimenezMexico CityGM/Partner at Good Rebels México, a full-service digital agency, and Founder/CEO at Seenapse.Digital marketing, advertising, AIFounder, full timeSeenapseDIET APPROACH: Twitter first (previously), now mostly newsletters, plus Reddit, The Atlantic, Wired, The New Yorker, and Rolling Stone.LAST: The Buried Giant, by Kazuo Ishiguro (fiction)

NOW: Future Now: The Making of Blade Runner, by Paul M. Sammon; The Will to Change, by bell hooks; Room to Dream, by David Lynch and Kristine McKenna; and A Thousand Plateaus, by Deleuze and Guattari (non-fcition)
Poet Louise GlückSkim and select TLDR (a good digest of tech-related news), Strands of Genius (come for the links but stay for the thought-provoking musings of Faris, Rosie, and guests), The Red Hand Files (Nick Cave answering questions from fans!), Delightful (great lessons on content writing, even when they don’t look like lessons, from Steve Bryant), Adjacent Possible (from Steven Johnson, author of the great book Where Do Ideas Come From, and around the same subject),

Occassional topics in AdAge, Product Hunt, Crunchbase, Pitchbook
Philosophize This!, Metamuse,Tsumego ProTrainGolem of PragueCoatepec near the Gulf of Mexico
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139Daisy AliotoPeekskill and BrooklynWriter, cofounder and CEO of Dirt, former audience development leadJournalism, digital pop culture, newlsettersFounderDirt, with Kyle Chayka. DIET APPROACH: Twitter first, with content related to business e.g.
What’s going on in the “market” (media and web3) a lot of which is conveyed on Twitter, Telegram chats, but also publications like Puck, The Information, Bankless, Axios Crypto and podcasts like PROOF and Overpriced JPEGS
LAST: A biography of poet Anna Akhmatova called "Anna of All the Russias: A Life of Anna Akhmatova" by Elaine Feinstein.

NOW: Soon to be cracked "Anna Karenina"
Everything Is Personal (Laurie Stone’s newsletter), The Fence and Know Your Enemy. Cover to coverEverything Is PersonalNOTA BENE for art world news and gossip, How Long Gone for restaurant intel and Killing Time, for watch stuff, PROOF and Overpriced JPEGS.Brian Eno’s ReflectionTrain The Jennifer Fergate mysteryTwo of my favorite places I have visited: Essaouira, Morocco and Tbilisi, Georgia. Closer to home: Monhegan Island.
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140Avery TrufelmanBrooklynPodcast host and creator of "Articles of Interest", writerJournalism, fashionFounderArticles of Interest, a podcast about what we wear.DIET APPROACH: Mostly history book heavy, interview and profile, plus lots of podcasts.
AM RITUALS: WNYC on the radio and BBC Global News podcast every morning.
LAST: Catherine Lacey's "Biograpy of X"
NOW: "A Girl's Story" by Annie Ernaux
"Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide Us" by Evan Mandery.///TM app TrainPreppy fashion that culmintated in the creation of Amercian IvyThe New York Transit Museum
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141 Radit MahindroBaliGraphic designer turned hospitality lead, consutlant, writerHospitality, hotels, writingFreelancer, full time/DIET APPROACH: Headlines in the morning, mags and podcasts in the evenings

READS: Emergence Magazine, Atmos, and Futureworld, Stephen Mai launched Woo during the pandemic with wonderful content about well being (and about travel next year, he told me)

LAST: "Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human" by Richard Wrangham.

NOW: A book on Java style by Peter Schobert together with art curator Soedarmadji Damais and photographer Tara Sosrowardoyo
Interview with/about Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood Rarely read physical publications now. When I do...it's anything with interesting visual (photography, illustration, layout, font, colour)./Inspiring Futures by Ed Cotton, Unpacked by AFAR, Zane Lowe Show, and Sleeper podcasts. WeTransfer and Björk created a super interesting mini-podcast Sonic Symbolism.Timezone ConverterTrainRecently it's been more about holistic conscious lifestyle from the perspective of both indigenous and modern culture.Dapur Bali Mula in North Bali
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