From DANG-TV-is-getting-awesome to why you should wear a lab coat to seeing how many times an airline can cram lobster down your throat in one flight, here are your weekend reading recommendations from the Gumroad team. We hope yours is the perfect balance of productive creativity and recharging relaxa-ti-on.
Home
Television is being taken over by filmmakers, and that’s a beautiful thing (Quartz)
What’s your favorite 20-hour movie?
What You Can Learn in the next Ten Minutes That Will Make Your Entire Life Better (LinkedIn)
Somewhat misleading title for a funny read.
Work & Creativity
Independence and the Creative Life: Thoughts From XOXO (Kickstarter)
“Independence is hard. Independence is lonely. And it takes a unique kind of bravery to create something and to put it out into the world in this unfiltered way that is enabled through technology…”
An Insanely Detailed, Hand-Drawn Map of San Francisco (Citylab)
For the modern-day cartography enthusiast.
How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math (Nautilus)
"There is an interesting connection between learning math and science, and learning a sport."
You Should Run Your Startup Like a Cult. Here’s How. (Wired)
All hail Sahil, Supremely-Wise Overseer and Maestro of Dreams. All hail.
Stuff and Things
Gumroad Library for iPhone (Gumroad)
Our new app is here!
An Australian researcher has worked out how to store 1000TB on a CD (Science Alert)
Finally, a place to store my 250,000,000-song library!
Tesla CEO promises a self-driving model for next year (Engadget)
I’ll believe it when I fall asleep in the back seat and wake up in Tahoe.
Odds and Ends
What It’s like to Fly the $23,000 Singapore Airlines Suites Class (Medium)
Here’s one way to cash in your airline miles.
Thru You Too (Kutiman)
Read this one with your ears as well as your eyes. Kutiman’s follow-up to his 2009 ThruYou project seamlessly blends unrelated YouTube videos into haunting, jazzy songs and videos.
