Movies watched

• The Wolf of Wall Street (01 Jan) — liked it!
• After the Thin Man (also 01 Jan) — liked it!
• Holiday (1938) (02 Jan) — loved it!
• The Awful Truth (03 Jan) — liked it!

Books read

• The Thin Man — pretty good but maybe my least favorite Hammett?

Articles and internet whatnot

• Mirrors, Carnivals and Condoms (designed by Jodorowsky) Four exchanges on 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘣 — Keith Uhlich and Odie Henderson talk about Married to the Mob (second-rate Demme) and also some about Something Wild (favorite Demme)

“Content strategy is fundamentally the practice of solving business problems through the use of information.”

Sarah O’Keefe

In its best form, cooking is a practice measured not in individual dishes but in days and even weeks—a strategic navigation of ingredients, expiration dates, uses and reuses, variety and sameness.

Helen Rosner in “The Joylessness of Cooking”

“The truth is paywalled but the lies are free.”

Great quote.

I was reminded of it by UX Collective’s “100 design lessons for 2001,”, but looks like it was popularized by Nathan J. Robinson in Current Affairs earlier this year.