Grab your mug — this week's stack ranges from a steak-and-sauerkraut diet to a font that draws charts out of letters, with plenty in between to slow down for.
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The Most Powerful Men in America Are Eating Only Steak and Sauerkraut. Could I?
One writer tests the carnivore-adjacent regimen reportedly favored by the current administration's inner circle, one plate of meat and fermented cabbage at a time.
The 100 Best Grateful Dead Songs
A ranked tour through five decades of noodling, jamming, and interstellar detours — good company for a slow Sunday.
The Long Lunch With Emilie Hawtin
The creative director who helped reinvent J.Crew talks career, taste, and what a proper long lunch is actually for.
This Little-Known Friendship Problem Could Explain Why You Feel So Lonely
It's not that you have no friends — it's that the depth doesn't match the number, and that gap has a name.
A Picturesque London Suburb Feels the 'Ted Lasso' Effect
Richmond-upon-Thames was already lovely; now it's a pilgrimage site for fans chasing the show's warmhearted footprint.
What if It's Not the Phones?
An 82-year-old psychologist who grew up roaming free makes the case that the real culprit predates the smartphone by decades.
Tough Love: Does My Kid Need Therapy?
A mother asks whether her 8-year-old's shutdowns in the face of hard moments are a phase or a signal — Abigail weighs in with her usual bluntness.
MI6 is top European foreign intelligence service, peer review finds
Britain's spies edge out France and the Netherlands in a rare peer review of Europe's intelligence services.
88 Prompts for Long Term Thinking
Kevin Kelly resurfaces the questions he wrote for the Long Now Foundation back in 2019 — worth sitting with slowly, not skimming.
How AI Is Changing The Job Market, Hiring And Career Options
Starting with Deloitte scrapping its traditional career ladder, a look at how job titles and hiring itself are being rewritten.
DIMEPIECE
Walking the Monaco Grand Prix paddock with Mai Ikuzawa, who moves through it like a director scouting her next scene.
If You're Over 40, You're Ready to Use A.I.
An unlikely case, made through the lens of teaching Kabbalah, that age and life experience are an advantage for working alongside AI, not a handicap.
I Accidentally Started Recreating My '90s Childhood for My Daughter—& Now I Don't Want to Stop
Electric Youth spray, bean bag chairs, graffiti pants — one mother's nostalgia project turns into something she can't quite bring herself to end.
Datatype — variable font that turns text into charts
A genuinely strange little tool: a font whose letterforms bend into bar charts, line graphs, and pie slices as you type.
Hollywood is entering its AI era
A quiet survey of how artificial intelligence has crept into nearly every stage of filmmaking, from script to screen.
Have Yourself an Italian August
It opens with two middle-aged men baking on beach chairs under the Italian sun, and it only gets more relaxing from there.
How to think in writing
A patient argument for why putting words on the page isn't just recording your thoughts — it's how you actually have the good ones.
The AI backlash is only getting started
The technology that terrified people in theory is now doing so in practice — here's how the Economist thinks leaders should respond.
I'm Begging You: Never Write With A.I.
Bret Stephens makes an impassioned, only-half-joking plea for writers to keep their sentences their own.
Invest in Lasting Quality
Part of a 31-day handbook series, this one makes the case for buying fewer, better things and keeping them a long time.
What Would Be on Your Larry David Sandwich?
Inspired by a Curb Your Enthusiasm deli named after Larry himself, a lighthearted prompt: what would your namesake sandwich hold?
I Tried the Trump Cabinet's Steak and Sauerkraut Diet. It Was (Mostly) Fantastic.
The unlocked version of the steak-and-sauerkraut experiment above, for when you want the full verdict without hitting a paywall.
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