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UPDATES FROM ME

• The Freelance Writing Awards CLOSE SOON! You have until midday (UK time) on June 8th to enter. The top prize is £1,000 for the Freelance Writer of the Year. All the eligibility criteria and how to enter is right here.

• There’s an extract from my book, You’re the Business, in the current issue of Courier magazine! I love Courier’s down-to-earth approach to business and the weekly email is one of my favs, so really happy to see my book in the mag this month <3

WEEKLY FAVS

• I watched season three of Master of None, which sees Aziz Ansari disappear behind the camera and his character, Dev, goes from star to cameo. What we’re left with instead is a radical, cinematic and searing exploration of modern love

• “Plato strove for a perfection so uncompromising that he admitted it couldn’t exist in reality. It’s a beautiful dream.” Learning how to embrace ‘good enough’

• In 2020, Anand Menon got Covid, then four members of his family died in quick succession. A heartbreaking piece of writing about family, loss and what haunts us

• I loved Christina McCausland’s essay about bedbugs and listlessness, written for Roxane Gay’s emerging writers series

• Can an AI therapist, available at all hours, really understand your problems?

• “I worry about getting it right—loving Jamie and loving Billy, mourning the life I lost and appreciating the life I have.” Katie Hawkins-Gaar ostensibly writes about grief and life after loss, but I keep returning to her writing because I find so full of hope

• Gillian Tett asks what we lose when we work from home

• And last, I’ve been playing this silly game, where you have to draw something in 20 seconds to teach the AI to recognise different doodles. It’s supposed to make machine learning more neutral, but really it’s just a thrilling way to procrastinate

“And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.” ― Wendell Berry, The Unforeseen Wilderness

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