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If you're scrolling through your email this morning and looking for something to read, we've got you covered for the whole weekend with the second edition of our Trash Fire series.
No need to hunt around Facebook or Twitter and wade through the inane political banter and clickbait. We've got top-quality trash right here for you to click.
Enjoy.
Trash Fire
The popularity of Microsoft’s Surface is the least realistic thing on TV
This guy is just casually using a Surface in bed? And it’s not just falling over? Do you think I’m an idiot?
The 2 Hour Rule: The Genius of Einstein, Darwin, and Nietzsche Applied
2-hour time blocks dedicated to thinking.
Hell in a Cell: Meet the man behind the infamous Reddit meme
"If I re-read it after I wrote it and it makes me smile to myself, I will post it"
Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet
Where is the line between authenticity and toxicity?
Product Habits Newsletter Links
A database of all the links from one of the newsletters I subscribe to. Kinda meta to link to it here.
The Myth of the Open Plan Office
From Lawson. There are some good ways to build open-plan office space, but companies seem to be taking a much more ham-fisted approach.
What Bikini Atoll Looks Like Today
Sixty years after the nuclear tests, the groundwater is contaminated and the coconuts are radioactive. But are the coral reefs thriving?
Why Couples Should Split Expenses by How Much They Make
...or should they? Hashtag controversial topics.
My Brother, My Brother and Me (Podcast)
an advicecast for the modern era featuring three real-life brothers...
Your “Financial Shock” Wealth
... the truest measure of a person’s real wealth: What is the largest unexpected financial shock you could sustain without the cost of that to you suddenly becoming ten times the original cost or more?
Michael Jackson patented 'anti-gravity' shoes following famous lean dance
He leaned forward 45 degrees, apparently defying gravity, and completely blew our minds.