• If You're Curious

    Welcome to my latest experiment.

     

    The short version: lists of books/newsletters/publications/organizations/conferences/events/festivals/people/podcasts/think tanks/institutes/consultancies/research labs/communities to read/follow/subscribe to/listen to/join/learn from/attend for the purpose of learning, organized by oddly specific categories but generally relating to digital sociology+future of work+business+entrepreneurship+leadership+sociology+psychology+culture and society+technology+design+the arts+data.

     

    The long version: I missed the readings and discussions and paper writing of my undergraduate media theory classes. I missed having a steady flow of high quality content that kept me thinking critically, learning new ideas and perspectives, and developing an interdisciplinary, global, and flexible mindset.

     

    So I’ve been opening newsletters and clicking links and purposefully yet organically discovering content and sources of that content and writing it all down on a list.

     

    But, in order for that list to be of any use, it needs to have categories or subjects around which to group the content. That's what I've done here, I've organized it.

     

    It’s probably also important to note that I have not read all of these books, read every edition of every newsletter, listened to every podcast. They’re on my list, because I heard or learned about them somewhere or had them recommended to me.

     

    Maybe they’ll make it onto your list too. I hope you find your things that you’d rather spend your time consuming than scrolling endlessly on social media.

  • If you want to really nerd out over language and its nuances

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    If you're interested in material that belongs on a syllabus for a college course on Television and Culture

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    If you want to better understand your emotions

    If you want to read poetry that will make you think and feel

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    If you want to consider issues of gender at work from an academic perspective

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    If you want to read/watch/otherwise consume a fascinating story that actually happened

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    If you want to understand the psychology and big money business behind capturing your digital attention and the implications of that on your interactions with your screens

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    If you want to inspire your ambition

    If you want to read about reading

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    If you want to reflect on friendship from a psychology-sociology-business perspective

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    If you want collections of short essays that will make you feel more connected to a shared human experience

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    Writing for writers

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    Writing for everyone, regardless of whether or not you identify as a writer

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    Data, with regard to online dating

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    If you want to learn about human decision making from a science-psychology-behavioral economics perspective

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    How to actually rest

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    Critical analysis of the culture we live in, and how to build the society of the future

    Ways of organizing our society around the consideration of how intertwined business success, human livelihood, and the future of the planet truly are

    If you're really into walking

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    Fiction that will make you think about aspects of shared human experiences through specific lenses

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    If you actually really like your job but still want to set healthy boundaries and learn about work-life balance or blend or dance or whatever you want to call it

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    If you want to stay up to date on what intelligent voices of Gen Z are saying, so that you don't look down on people younger than you and wall yourself off from potentially learning from what they have to say

    • Gen Yeet
    • High Tea

    Children's books

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    If you want to learn about resilience

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    If you want to think about and be inspired by the intersection of startups, creativity, and human-centered work

    Ideas from the overlapping spaces of technology, design, media, culture, art, and the future

    If you want to be more intentional about designing gatherings and bringing people together in new ways

    • Subscribe to The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker [monthly email]
    • Read The Art of Gathering, also by Priya Parker [book]
    • Listen to Together Apart, also by Priya Parker [podcast]

    The intersection of work and psychology

    • Subscribe to Granted by Adam Grant [monthly email]
    • Subscribe to the Pink Newsletter by Daniel Pink [every other Tuesday email]

    Inspiring ideas about personal growth

    Inspiring ideas about what it means to be a human being [who is part of a society]

    News at the intersection of business and technology

    Designing physical spaces for humans

    Philosophies on leadership of the future