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• How to index your work so you never lose an idea again

• "‘Are you still watching Grey’s Anatomy?’ Netflix asks. I am and I am not.” Vicky Spratt on the in-between place of pandemic fatigue

• Emily Bell on how tech platforms get to decide what is and isn’t journalism

• I know he’s got a new book out, but I’m currently reading Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers. It’s a smart, sideways look at success, that somehow simultaneously both comforted and also bummed me out

• The mental health benefits of being bad at something

• Sinead O’Connor didn’t derail her career, she got off a path that wasn’t right for her

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