Link Blog, August 2021

• The Argument For Everyone Taking This Entire Summer Off

• The Subversive Joy of Lil Nas X’s Gay Pop Stardom

• No Before, No After

• This entire country is haunted

• Instagram Has Become SkyMall

• Note-taking in the wild: living with the Surface Duo

• Back Pain Now Dominates Our Modern World

• With Olympic seats empty, the hottest ticket in Tokyo is not the Summer Games but pro wrestling

• 3 Rules for Middle-Age Happiness

• Simone Biles Reminds Us That Even Superstars Feel The Pressure

• Hundreds of Ways to Get S#!+ Done—and We Still Don’t

• The Philosophy of Scrivener

• Attention is a form of love

• What Will Happen to Music Libraries When Streaming Services Die?

• The Return-to-Office Existential Crisis

• Where has all the productivity gone?

• The Day the Good Internet Died

• The Case Against Sticking The Landing

• I’m Mad About How Badly I Want This Frickin’ Wrestling Cowboy To Win This Frickin’ Made-Up Championship

• Nobody Cares What You Have to Say—That’s a Good Thing

• Why can’t we sleep?

• Anyone Can(’t) Cook

• We Have Only Eight Years Left

• The Surprising Benefits of Talking to Strangers

• For want of a screenless MP3 player

• The Best Time-Management Advice Is Depressing But Liberating

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