The OffBeat #47: Half Note / Whole Note
Something to read, something to think about, something else
Something to read:
Everything starts with asking the right questions
Nobody knows what’s happening online anymore
How music created Silicon Valley
Return-to-the-office mandates are a disaster for working moms
Millennials are aging out of the internet
Something to think about:
“[I]t’s such a delicious idea — that each of us has enough potential to populate more than one life story. Somewhere deep in my twisted little brain is the desire to be so good at so many things that I earn the chance to be multiple people. It seems so unfair that we only get to read the choose-your-own-adventure book of our own lives once, that we can’t pick a point and go, ‘Okay, this time flip to page 102 and do the rest another way.’” — Mary Laura Philpott, I Miss You When I Blink
Something else:
Another offbeat grab bag of things I appreciated this month:
My DIY “trash can trail mix”—basically a combo of sweet, savory, and salty odds and ends from the pantry
Kyle Chayka’s Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
Atrium Art Gallery in Charleston
Andrea Elliott’s Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
The caesar salad at Little Nonna’s here in Philly
Jazz bass player Dezron Douglas
For double the reading recommendations, a.k.a. a Whole Note, including a guide to discovering your own taste and an op-ed on how group chats have come to rule the world, keep reading.