From hair in your latte to mannequins on a plane, here are your weekend reading (and watching, and listening!) recommendations from the Gumroad team.
Life & Leisure
Modern Curses (The Nib)
May your videos buffer for ten thousand years!
Inside America’s First Cat Café (Fast Company)
Words cannot espresso how excited Iams about this. Meow bad. Kitten be purrvented. I’m under a latté pressure.
Full Transcript: Monica Lewinsky Speaks Out On Ending Online Abuse (Forbes)
A decade-long silence is broken for a captivated audience at the 30 Under 30 Summit in Philadelphia
Work & Creativity
Isaac Asimov Asks, “How Do People Get New Ideas?” (Technology Review)
An unpublished essay rediscovered 55 years later. Timeless.
Why Instagram Worked (Backchannel)
A cofounder looks back at how a stalled project turned into a historic success.
Fixed vs. Growth: The Two Basic Mindsets That Shape Our Lives (Brain Pickings)
How to fine-tune the internal monologue that scores every aspect of our lives, from leadership to love.
Marc Andreessen on Why Optimism Is Always the Safest Bet (New York Magazine)
Everything is awesome.
Stuff & Things
Virgin America Made a Bizarre, Boring, Six-Hour Ad About One Horrible Flight (Slate)
If you watch this entire thing… Wow. Skip around though!
Research shows that Portal 2 is better for you than ‘Brain training’ software (io9)
Now you’re thinking with Portals.
Odds & Ends
Plants Respond to Leaf Vibrations Caused by Insects’ Chewing, MU Study Finds (University of Missouri)
Never eat anything that casts a shadow.
The Fifty Funniest Puns in the History of Puns (Distractify)
Okay, this blog post needs to settle down. It’s full of hyperlinks.
