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# The Backlog
- URL: https://makoism.com/the-backlog/
- Published: 2023-10-21T01:47:49.000Z
- Updated: 2023-10-21T05:10:47.000Z
- Description: Be the person that both Mr. Rogers and George Carlin would be proud of. - @kittywifclaws@hachyderm.io
- Author: Steve Makofsky
- Tags: makoism, #newsletter-makoism

In my last post, [I mentioned that](https://makoism.com/broken-pieces/) I would spend some time thinking about how to rework this space while I take a slight writing hiatus.

While that's in the works, **I certainly didn't stop reading**.

And of course, my "oh, that is interesting" list has overflowed.

Since a few folks reached out and said that they liked the 'brain dump' of random links .. so here you go - **a blast of 50+ random things** in my backlog that I found over the internet the last weeks.

Sorry, no commentary on it; *just a random bag of joy*.

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## Mind Benders 🤯

## Brain Dump 🧠

Here are a few articles and videos that resonated with me over the last week:

- [**None Pizza With Left Beef - 10 Years Later**](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/10/none-pizza-with-left-beefs-creator-steve-molaro-interview.html)
- [**John Cleese on the Five Factors to Make Your Life More Creative**](https://www.themarginalian.org/2012/04/12/john-cleese-on-creativity-1991/)
- [**AI Solopreneurship**](https://www.theshepreport.com/p/ai-solopreneurship-part-1)
- [**A Smartphone Is A Requirement**](https://jasonjournals.com/2023/10/12/a-smartphone-is-a-requirement/)
- [**A Weekend Without My iPhone**](https://ibmacin.com/2023/10/16/a-weekend-without-my-iphone/)
- [**Are You Afraid of the Darkness?: A Hopepunk Explainer**](https://www.denofgeek.com/culture/are-you-afraid-of-the-darkness-a-hopepunk-explainer/)
- [**Beware The Robo-Therapist (feat. Hannah Zeavin) - Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000**](https://www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/13544940-episode-13-beware-the-robo-therapist-feat-hannah-zeavin-june-8-2023)
- [**When social media can’t be trusted**](https://static.nytimes.com/email-content/IHO%5Fsample.html?action=click&module=nl-index-see-the-latest)
- [**The Corrosive Element in Our Lives**](http://johnpweiss.com/blog/189926/the-corrosive-element-in-our-lives)
- [**Why Coffee Shops Are Teachers, If Only We'd Pay Attention**](https://johnpweiss.com/blog/176431/why-coffee-shops-are-teachers-if-only-wed-pay-attention)
- [**Slow But Delightful Conversations**](https://numericcitizen.me/friday-notes-108-slow-but-delightful-conversations/)
- [**The Story of Name Sans**](https://www.arrowtype.com/articles/name-sans-process)
- [**Signs of undeclared ChatGPT use in papers mounting**](https://retractionwatch.com/2023/10/06/signs-of-undeclared-chatgpt-use-in-papers-mounting/)
- [**Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible**](https://niemanreports.org/articles/npr-twitter-musk/)
- [**How Disney Packed Big Emotion Into a Little Robot**](https://spectrum.ieee.org/disney-robot)
- [**Pockets Full of History - Levi Strauss & Co**](https://www.levistrauss.com/2017/01/12/pockets-full-history/)
- [**ActivityPub, the SocialCG, and the social web**](https://evanp.me/2023/10/06/activitypub-the-socialcg-and-the-social-web/)
- [**Think Bigger**](https://www.profgalloway.com/think-bigger)
- [**Career Advice**](https://moxie.org/2013/01/07/career-advice.html)
- [**More Thoughtful Reading & Writing on the Web**](https://tantek.com/2023/277/b1/thoughtful-reading-writing-web)
- [**Why side projects are essential for creatives—and employers should embrace them**](https://jonas.do/writing/2023-10-05-side-projects/)
- [**Making Hard Things Easy**](https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/10/06/new-talk--making-hard-things-easy/)
- [**What They Don’t Tell You About Getting Old**](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/30/opinion/aging-old-wisdom.html)
- [**TWO: Weapons-Grade**](https://windowscopilotstrategies.substack.com/p/two-weapons-grade)
- [**How we’ve enshittified the tech economy**](https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/technology/63324/how-weve-enshittified-the-tech-economy)
- [**Return to Office Is Bullshit And Everyone Knows It**](https://soatok.blog/2023/10/02/return-to-office-is-bullshit-and-everyone-knows-it/)
- [**Weird A.I. Yankovic, a cursed deep dive into the world of voice cloning**](https://waxy.org/2023/10/weird-ai-yankovic-voice-cloning/)
- [**Is Web3 bullshit?**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGsllEF7w%5Fg)
- [**“Blown Away Guy”: The Most Iconic Music Image of All Time**](https://www.vintag.es/2022/02/blown-away-guy.html?m=1)
- [**Twitter’s potential collapse could wipe out vast records of recent human history**](https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/11/1063162/twitters-imminent-collapse-could-wipe-out-vast-records-of-recent-human-history/)
- [**The Seven Meetings You Hate**](https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-seven-meetings-you-hate/)
- [**The Gravitational Pull Of Business As Usual**](https://paulitaylor.com/2023/09/05/the-gravitational-pull-of-business-as-usual/)
- [**10 pieces of wisdom from Alan Watts**](https://bigthink.com/thinking/alan-watts/)
- [**It Will Give You Goosebumps - Alan Watts On The Eternal Now**](https://youtube.com/watch?v=IheL31luaEs&si=hrQRHbiNzeFXyB88)
- [**When Managers Take A Coach Approach Everyone Wins**](https://www.forbes.com/sites/teresahopke/2022/08/31/when-managers-take-a-coach-approach-everyone-wins/?sh=5da1ef3062d9)
- [**Neil deGrasse Tyson: An Astrophysicist Goes To The Movies**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiwi-NEmoIA)
- [**Three Myths and Four Truths About How to Get Happier**](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/happiness-truths-myths/675283/?utm%5Fsource=press.coop)
- [**The burnout curve**](https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/09/11/the-burnout-curve/)
- [**The Simplicity Fetish**](https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-242-the-simplicity-fetish)
- [**The Math Behind The 5-Hour Rule: Why You Need To Learn 1 Hour Per Day Just To Stay Relevant**](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/math-behind-5-hour-rule-why-you-need-learn-1-hour-per-michael-simmons?utm%5Fsource=share&utm%5Fmedium=member%5Fios&utm%5Fcampaign=share%5Fvia)
- [**Interoperability Will Save the Open Web**](https://spectrum.ieee.org/doctorow-interoperability)
- [**Fear Of Missing Out is lethal when somebody invents a footgun**](https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/fomo-is-lethal/)
- [**Style is consistent constraint**](https://stephanango.com/style)
- [**How do we fix the “Too Many Newsletters” problem?**](https://om.co/2023/08/27/how-do-we-fix-the-too-many-newsletters-problem/)
- [**Measuring developer productivity? A response to McKinsey**](https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/measuring-developer-productivity)
- [**The big idea: why we need to learn to fail better**](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/aug/28/the-big-idea-why-we-need-to-learn-to-fail-better)
- [**Notes on Complexity: A Buddhist Scientist on the Murmuration of Being**](https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/08/27/notes-on-complexity-neil-theise/)
- [**Stop Climbing, Start Surfing**](https://www.gapingvoid.com/blog/2023/08/27/stop-climbing-start-surfing/)
- [**10 ways to soothe painful assholes.**](https://jessicahagy.substack.com/p/10-ways-to-soothe-painful-assholes)
- [**This Is How To Succeed Under Pressure: 4 Secrets From Astronauts**](http://bakadesuyo.com/2023/08/astronauts)
- [**Style vs substance**](https://adamsinger.substack.com/p/style-vs-substance)
- [**Some tactics for writing in public**](https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/08/07/tactics-for-writing-in-public/)
- [**connect the dots**](https://jarche.com/2023/08/connect-the-dots/)
- [**Mastering the Art of the Request**](https://hbr.org/2023/08/mastering-the-art-of-the-request)
- [**If you want a picture of the future, imagine humans having to face watching reboots – for ever**](https://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/if-you-want-a-picture-of-the-future)
- [**Oppenheimer Had a Signature Martini. Here’s How to Make It.**](https://www.insidehook.com/article/booze/oppenheimer-had-signature-martini-heres-make)
- [**Enabling Good Work Habits Through Reflective Goal-Setting**](https://newsletter.abinoda.com/p/reflective-goal-setting)

Be well. ✌🏻