🔖 Read What Is A Third Place? (And Here’s Why You Should Have One) by Emily Torres (The Good Trade).
I’ve been thinking about third places, their role in fiction, what they look like online, & how they overlap with affinity spaces for a few days so it felt like serendipity when this hit my inbox.
🔖 Read Katy Simpson Smith on Writing a Southern Woman Louder Than Herself.
Writing, as a career, is inherently boat-rocking.
🔖📚💖 A couple of links about pleasure reading for your reading pleasure:
🔖 Read A LETTER FROM THE NEW CORPORATE OWNERS OF HOOPER’S STORE (McSweeney’s).
This is hilarious and ends with a perfect button.
🔖 Some interesting links around “wholesome” as a word for things that restore us, rather than a conservative metric by which to judge people:
🔖📓 Read How Pew Research Center will report on generations moving forward.
I love some of these alternate ways of creating age groupings. I could especially imagine grouping people according to their age at the time of key historical events or technological innovations producing valuable insights.
🔖📓 Can ChatGPT Replace UX Researchers? An Empirical Analysis of Comment Classifications
This is an interesting study with implications for qualitative research beyond UX. Looks like the answer is, “It’s too soon to tell.”
🔖📚 Read This Is Dedicated To Anyone Who Ever Left - Kelly McMaster interviewed by Lyz Lenz.
🔖📚 Read “I think, like marriage, home is a fantasy” - Kelly McMaster interviewed by Amanda Montei
Here are all of my intellectual intentions and here is this adorable, smiling, chubby baby, swallowing it whole.
When writing real life, there is always going to be a connection between what is happening at the breakfast table and how you are showing up on the page.
🔖 Read Monkey House: Strange Reflections at the Singerie by Kate Zambreno (VQR).
