Sunday

The clouds are coming out of summer's hibernation Sunday in the fall, and the days tick shorter as they head winter's way. Another newsletter does most of our work today, but they are the best stories of the day to write about in service to our fans. A new mood tracker on iOS 17 makes for the 2nd phone add-on in two days. A TED Talk that will help you take on your next big challenge, and another writer digs up a few interesting stories about big decisions. When the seriousness is done, Exploding Kittens is heading to Netflix for a new series, we highlight the cartoonist Matthew Inman, who brought in the big guns for the series, Mike Judge (Beavis and Butthead) and Greg Daniels (The Office). Finally, a comparative trailer – Mean Girls 2004 vs. Mean Girls 2024, side by side.

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I highlighted Sahil Bloom's Friday Five newsletter yesterday based on the high-quality content. Today is similar - a newsletter I only discovered a few months ago. Hurly is written by Rahul Chowdhury and like Sahil Bloom; I don't know if they make it easier or harder to find the best stories online. Fortunately, I love reading and researching information for this newsletter, but when you review 20 stories to build out a newsletter, and 19 of them aren't as good as something these two wrote, it becomes a bit of a why bother moment! Then you go back and look at your purpose, finding, highlighting, and reflecting on the best stuff you can find online. As always, I will add a few thoughts to each story to get you thinking.

Yesterday I highlighted the color feature on the iPhone; I'm now on day 2 of greyscale; the jury is out. Today, Hurly highlights a feature called State of Mind and a Mood Tracker that can ask simple questions about your mood throughout the day. There have been other apps like this; this is now part of the iPhone's standard apps inside the 'Health' apps. Side note: this Mood Tracker is only on iOS 17; you must upgrade to see it. 

Another tip from Hurly this week is a Google Chrome extension called PrintFriendly, an easy-to-use extension that tightens up a web page for printing. I've used this 5 times in the first hour of adding it. I print too much.

Stephen Duneier will show you in under 15 seconds how you can draw a work of art. He will then take you through several other examples of how he uses engineering and strategic innovation to accomplish amazing things. The best part of his TED Talk is how he developed the system in the first place. After hearing from all his teachers that Stephen didn't apply himself??, he developed the original system in high school.

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We highlighted Morgan Housel, and the link probably came from Hurly, who sent us another story from the author of The Psychology of Money and a partner at Collaborative Fund, a VC fund in NYC. In today's highlight, Housel aggregates a few stories, many we'd never heard before from people everyone knows.

Do you know why Warren Buffett bought a declining textile company in 1964 named Berkshire Hathaway? Hint – it wasn’t for the business; it was for the twelve cents per share the CEO tried to screw Buffett out of in an earlier deal.

Housel, who writes about money, goes on to discuss that not all decisions are made on spreadsheets; how about this one:

In 1927, the actress Gloria Swanson turned down a $1 million dollar movie contract; her reasoning:

There are several other big decisions like these in Housel's quick read.

Matthew Inman is a cartoonist, or if you want to go highbrow, he is a writer and illustrator famous for his exploding kittens. I love his work and like him more for considering himself a cartoonist, a profession that requires more creativity than either writing or illustrating alone.

The kittens are coming to Netflix. Check out the story on Inman’s website and then watch the trailer.

CONSEQUENCE put together a great side-by-side trailer comparison of the new Mean Girls reboot scheduled for release next year and the original from 20 years ago.

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Perfect for a Sunday - Coffee - Sylvan Esso.

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