Graduation, Travel, and Future Writing
May & June 2023 Curated Ingest
Hi everyone!
Writing to you from New York after a fury of life events, travel, and various plans. I graduated, showed my parents around NYC (their first time seeing the city), and embarked on a two week trip to Japan.
Full-time work… what an unsatisfactory concept if you don’t feel aligned to it. I have a month until I begin full-time work, and am feeling unsettled and doubtful. What’s worse is that most of my friends who have already started full-time work confirm my feelings.
I also have a handful of projects I am pursuing until I begin work, such as cooking experiments, various drink concoctions, and am attending a climate change + AI summer school.
I also have a few more themed blogs planned for this outlet, which will be sent soon. Apropros, is there anything in particular you all would like me to write/record a deep dive into? Should I do more long-form content, or even recordings?
Below, I have a collection of thematically grouped finds from the last two months that I will share, as well as an update on a previous issue! With that…
Top Four
Anand Giridharadas’ commencement address to Sidwell Friends School
The Bear Season 2 (please let me know if you’ve watched the second season!)
The Acquired Podcast (especially the Nvidia, Sony, Nintendo, and LVMH episodes.)
The United States
How connected is your community NYT interactive piece. Towards the end, when the piece starts splitting the US into pieces, was cool!
Bank failure visualization (thank you Connor!)
Angola Prison in Louisiana - it is frankly mind blowing that this still exists today in this pointed manner
Misc.
Cute description of a small German town and what makes it special
Bank note awards, the optimal way to cut a bagel, digital detox but fun, and latte art progression. (Thank you Lily!)
Computer art from the 1950s and 1960s
Really cool trailers - sad that they are struggling to make ends meet
The new Arsenal home kit branding is elite
Learning languages ruined my life (thanks Wenxi!)
The Dreamkeeper (also Lily!)
Architecture+
The details on the old GE Building on 51st and Lex are so cool
Flow of internet culture and LLM impact through ‘dark forest’ metaphor
Flood depressions for lake ecosystems to mitigate climate change???
Sick sliding cabin concept - lots of unique details
An update…
on fashion collaborations, which I’ve previously written about. The latest Y-3 Adidas collection has some interesting pieces, most notably these. Not to mention Adidas’ work with the National Geographic! Interesting collaborations that mix both brands, referencing my older post.
That’s all everyone! I’ll write to you soon 😊. If you would like to meet in NYC before the end of July, call me!
- Andrei