Low Volume, Medium Insight, Questionable Timing — #02
Writing, Links, and a Loose Relationship to Deadlines
I write things here on Substack. Some of those things go out via email. Others don’t. This is a weekly dispatch to catch you up on the ones that didn’t, along with a few other things that were interesting, irritating, or otherwise worth sharing.
The idea is to write pretty much daily. But since no one wants to get an email from me every day, and because intention and execution rarely shake hands, I’m sending this once-a-week catch-up instead. Fewer emails. Lower expectations. Everyone wins.
Things I Wrote (But Didn’t Email You About)
Why?
Some things I’d like to know
Read it here.
Trust the Process
A Theory of Effort, Loosely Applied
Read it here.
Authenticity™ in the Age of Performative Everything
Why Be Yourself When You Can Be a Brand?
Read it here.
Things I Read, Looked At or Listened To (And Thought You Might Like)
Suck It Up! – The Guardian
‘Fake moustache, fake nails, pure joy’ - In love with The Tourist, a photo story by Kourtney Roy. I want to live there!
Read it here.
I Love Peru – in cinemas, at least in France
A film recommendation for people who speak French and/or (ideally both) live in France. Not sure the film will get translated—or would even make sense—in anything other than French. I can’t say I love love loved it, it’s not that kind of movie, but it was good enough that I might watch it again, and just different enough to miss, but also different enough to make it worth it: a mock documentary, about an actor chasing fame and glory, where everyone plays themselves, with enough real life in it to blur the lines between fact and fiction to really mess with your head. Also, the kind of humour only the French seem to get away with.
More here.
That’s the roundup. If you read it, thank you. If you didn’t, well, you’re not reading this either, so that works out.
See you next week (or whenever deadlines and ambition intersect),
P