Hi friend,
Answers to the two most popular questions I’ve gotten this week, in no particular order:
I’ve been better, but I’ll be okay eventually.
Fave tracks are: Down Bad, So Long London, But Daddy I Love Him, Guilty as Sin, loml, I Can Do It With a Broken Heart, The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived, Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus, So High School, and The Manuscript.
What have you been telling people a lot lately?
with warmth + love,
N
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About that potential TikTok ban: some Gen Zers say they’d rather hope for a new app than use Instagram because it’s embarrassing (ouch)
Y2K aesthetic is making a comeback: more colloquially known as ‘frutiger aero,’ this aesthetic is basically 2008 Windows Vista
Shocker: working late + long hours leads to depression: reading this article at 10pm last night is why you’re getting this newsletter late today
How to handle online harassment: my least favorite part of the internet is that hateful comments are almost inevitable – here’s some tips if it happens to you
Is social media killing pop music? album labels often push artists to post on tiktok but then UMG… pulled their catalogue from tiktok
When fandom gets toxic: it’s all fun and games until other fans start speculating on deep, harmful rumors about the artists they love (yes, this is about Gaylors + Larries)
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I’m not gonna lie, I’ve been feeling deeply burnt out recently, so this piece from Spacetime Productivity (love their Portal newsletter!) hit me at the right time. This is what I needed to hear:
It’s time to stop trying so hard.
How can you lower the bar for everything that feels hard? Where can you simplify? Can you give less effort and lower expectations to achieve a pretty good result?
✌️ until next week
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