Five on a Friday — February 5, 2021
A snap from last weekend’s hike.
It’s 5:24am on a Friday, and the kids are still asleep. (“Still” isn’t exactly the right word for how my nearly-seven-month-old daughter sleeps. “Again” is more like it.) Time for another round fo Five on a Friday. See all Fridays here.
Reading: Last week, I wrote that I wanted to be done with one of the two books I was stuck in the middle of by the following Friday. It worked! I finished Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger and moved on to No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram, which I finished yesterday. (One of my partners at Matrix mentioned they were reading it, and I wanted in on the conversation.) I also hugely enjoyed this oral history of Guitar Hero, which at 33,000 words was practically a book in its own right.
Listening to: This week has been light on music for me, but better on the podcast front. I listened to most of the first episode of this Reply All series on reckoning with racism at Bon Appétit on a walk yesterday, and will probably finish it today. Also still loving Sarah Hart-Unger’s planning podcast, Best-Laid Plans.
Watching: Karen Puzzles on YouTube! She films herself solving puzzles, then puts them on YouTube. Inspired by going down that rabbit hole this week, I wrote about wish fulfillment YouTube yesterday.
Thinking about: Emoji productivity. I’ve been trying to write something new about emoji productivity weekly (for all of two weeks now, but still), so I’m thinking ahead to what I’ll write next week. One thing that made me happy this week was getting this tweet from Matt Haughey, a writer at Slack.
What else? Now I’m done with No Filter, I need to figure out my next book. Taking recommendations!