create a solution, keeping up with books, working w/ your hands

6 things worth sharing

Here are some things worth checking out while I wonder what to do with those eclipse glasses…

1. If you’re creative, why can’t you create a solution? At Aeon.

   • Short documentary about an artist working in his community in Houston who turned a row of small, dilapidated houses into art galleries

2. On letting go of the idea of keeping up with books. At Reactor

   • “Reading itself should be productive, in the sense that it produces ideas and feelings and thoughts and empathy and a lot of other things, too, across the whole range of human experience. The kind of productivity I mean is the quantifying kind, the kind that wants to get to a certain number of books read, or tick all the bingo boxes, or simply read more books than someone else did. Sometimes it arises in the form of a complaint: “Ugh, I’m so behind on my Goodreads challenge.”

   • I feel this a lot. Especially walking in a bookstore and you see all the new stuff you haven’t read yet, and then all the old stuff you feel like you should have read already

3. On the treasures of geocaching. From Rob Walker

4. The Great Teenage Babysitter Shortage from

   Culture Study

   • Nice writing on the author’s own babysitting adventures and then asking if teens are babysitting less?

5. Working with your hands is good for your brain

6. Wide-ranging post from

   Jessa Crispin
   on mid-life crises in men vs women, Miranda July as a 90s artist, and then the 3-Body Problem producer was murdered?

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   Book, Media, TV Notes

   • I moved this week, so not as much reading or watching

     • Speaking of, I did finish the 3-Body Problem show. The middle episodes (4,5,6) were the best

   • Re-started Great Expectations. I’m using chapter summaries to help me stay on track

   • Lol, I did watch a lot of college basketball, and my picks finished in the 99th percentile?

   

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   Last Thing

   “A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.” — Louis Nizer

Keep going-

Josh Spilker