What I Read This Week: July 19, 2013
About What I Read This Week: I read a lot. All the time. Too much. I’d like to be held accountable. During my day-to-day, I keep a Google doc that I update with an article name, URL, and a quote of everything I read or watch. I blog the list every Friday.
You’d think that having no internet for two days might cut down on reading. Wrong! I obsessed a little bit this week, obviously about the upsetting George Zimmerman verdict in my home state, and then again with the watching of Gasland. Oh, and rock candy. Sweet politics!
Real, Actual Books
- So helpful: Manage Your Day-To-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind by Jocelyn K. Glei
- Completely fascinating: The Cave Painters by Gregory Curtis
- Love more with every chapter: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg
- Re-started: The Art Spirit by Robert Henri
On The Internet
- Toby meets Anton for the first time on A Cup of Jo
- The objectively best things that have ever been on the Web by Mat Honan
- Why New Experiences Are Important, and How They Positively Affect Your Perception of Time on Lifehacker, “ If we perceive time more slowly when we’re processing the unfamiliar, than the frequent introduction of the unfamiliar could help our perception of time from rapidly shrinking.”
- Beat Procrastination More Easily by Treating It Like an Involuntary Bad Habit on Lifehacker, “In reality, Libet found that the brain was getting instructions to carry out an action about 200ms before the person was aware of their choice. This brought up a debate of whether or not free will actually existed, and Dr. Pychyl suggests that free will as we know it is essentially our ability to override actions that occur involuntarily, rather than the other way around.”
- Make Art That Sells with Lilla Rogers: The Full Scoop by Sara Franklin Design
- Emails That Land Jobs: The Best Way to Shine in a Follow-Up Note by Alexandra Franzen
- How I decide what to charge for {everything} I create. by Alexandra Franzen, “Always consider what your customer is actually receiving — results, tangible takeaways, the ability to finally do {fill-in-the-blank} — not just how much ‘time’ and ‘energy’ you’re putting into the equation.”
- Wheezing and Squealing by Laurie Wagner, “…when that was gone, he could make out a much more clear shot of death. Of course it had been there all along, but he’d been too distracted, too busy to notice.”
- State never proved its case, legal analysts say on the Miami Herald
- Chefs+Tech 7.16.2013
- An email that mentions Barack Obama. We Think Alone, Week 3
- EPA decides peer review of fracking study not such a good idea
- Fracking foes push California governor for ban
- California officials wrestle with handling trade secrets on fracking
- Boom: California greens try, fail to pass a fracking moratorium
- Gas drillers cancel lease with NE Pa. landowners
- The Top 5 Lies About Fracking – Explosions, poisons, pollution, cancer, and global warming all considered by Ronald Bailey
- Watched: Scott Belsky on How to Avoid Idea Plateaus
- Watched: On Chain Smoking by Austin Kleon, “Instead of taking a break in between projects or worrying about what’s next, use the end of one project to light up the next one.”
- Law and Justice and George Zimmerman
- Man Convicted for Shooting Teenager in the New York Times
- White Supremacy Acquits George Zimmerman, “When Zimmerman was acquitted today, it wasn’t because he’s a so-called white Hispanic. He’s not. It’s because he abides by the logic of white supremacy, and was supported by a defense team—and a swath of society—that supports the lingering idea that some black men must occasionally be killed with impunity in order to keep society-at-large safe.”
- A Tale of Two Best Friends by Aura Bogado
- Animating Black Bodies on The Nation
- Open season on black boys after a verdict like this by Gary Younge, “Since it was Zimmerman who stalked Martin, the question remains: what ground is a young black man entitled to and on what grounds may he defend himself? What version of events is there for that night in which Martin gets away with his life? Or is it open season on black boys after dark?”
- Food in Dirty Sheds Served to Bay Area Restaurants from NBC Bay Area
- The ludicrousness of embarrassed by Seth Godin, “Has being embarrassed ever helped you accomplish anything useful? We can (and should) work to eliminate it from our emotional vocabulary. If it’s worth doing, it’s worth not being embarrassed about. And if it’s not worth doing, don’t do it.”
- My Family, Our Cancer, and the Murderous Cruelty of Conservatives by Kurt Eichenwald
- ART IN REVIEW; Tracey Emin — ‘Every Part of Me’s Bleeding’
- Watched: Rock Candy Big Sugar Crystals HOW TO COOK THAT Ann Reardon
- Watched: Rock Candy Edible Geode HOW TO cook that Rock Candy Recipe Ann Reardon
- What’s in Your Toolbox: Rachel Castle on design*sponge, “The best piece of advice is never what anyone else tells you but what you tell yourself. You can hear lots of things from lots of different people, but I have discovered that when you really “learn” what you need to know, this is the best advice of all.”
- Watched: How to Make Rock Candy and How to make your own rock candy (sugar crystal candy)
- ‘Happy Break-Up to Us!’ How I’m Learning to End My Relationship on a High Note by Alexandra Franzen
- How Google is Killing Organic Search on the Tutorspree blog
- Infinite Rainbow: Alicia McCarthy at Rare
- GEORGE ZIMMERMAN, NOT GUILTY: BLOOD ON THE LEAVES by Jelani Cobb
- Zimmerman Is Acquitted in Trayvon Martin Killing
- The Zimmerman Jury Told Young Black Men What We Already Knew on Gawker
- Rachel Jeantel and society’s views of black women
- Fla. mom gets 20 years for firing warning shots
- Trayvon Martin Told Friend About Man Following Him in Final Moments
- George Zimmerman found not guilty of murder in Trayvon Martin’s death on cnn.com
