Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young
Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft. Travel.
It’s weirdly hard to steal Mark Zuckerberg’s trash
I don’t know what to think of The Outline anymore.
I reached out to a representative at Facebook to confirm how Mark Zuckerberg disposes of his garbage, but as of press time, they did not respond.
The Outline, Facebook, and Zuck aside — I found the Supreme Court case about trash and privacy interesting. You give up your right to trash privacy when you put it on the street for pickup.
Venture-backed scooters
In response to the widely circulated photos and articles about dockless bike piles in China, this from Slate.
Vanity Fair on the recent and sudden scooter invasion in San Francisco:
There’s no way in the year of our Lord 2018 that I am riding one of those … People are zooming past pedestrians without a single fuck to give. Mind you, there’s also people on bikes on the sidewalk, so it’s wheelmageddon.
Gender and your kitchen design
I think I need that matte Black Tie edition Kitchen Aid after reading this.
Nestlé Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For
There’s a documentary on Netflix called Tapped about the bottled water industry. Read this or watch that.
Outside Voices
This excerpted essay by Sloane Crosley is gold. So much fun to read, and I immediately bought the book afterwards.
Be kind, I thought, for some of the people you meet are using the same organic dishwashing liquid.