- Art Thinking by Amy Whitaker is an interesting read about how to add more “art thinking” to our lives. Deserves a closer read in the coming week.
- I’ve sensed it—the breakdown of my once vital social network, and considered it a byproduct of marriage and kids. I hadn’t also considered that it might be I’m out of practice “hanging out.” A great Dan Kois piece in Slate on Hanging Out, a new book by Sheila Liming on what she thinks is a practice we have lost.
- I have long loved Mike Mills’s 2016 film Twentieth Century Women, and had looked forward to his earlier film Beginners for some time. It did not disappoint: a lovely, layered story about a son and a father each finding love.
- An artifact of my previous life surfaced recently—my work journal from 2016-2017, dense with notes from meetings I don’t remember having. Very interesting to read through.
- I have loved Ted Gioia’s Substack newsletter The Honest Broker for the past few months. His take on whether pop culture fame expires after 80 years is a fun thought exercise.
- One of the pleasures of watching The O.C. is the soundtrack, which flings me back to my high school obsessions, including Damien Rice’s 2002 album O, a gem of an indie-folk album.
- Arthur Brooks’s Happiness column in The Atlantic is always insightful, but I really loved his recent column “Coffee really does make you happier”—an ode to coffee and its effects, with scientific evidence, to boot.
On 7 things from last week (2/27/23)
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Taylor Coe 