Day two of the matrix experiment, the one sentences look more like one word!  Past our mental blocks, we have a newsletter filled with fun ideas, small pictures, and Oingo Boingo.  If Oingo Boingo makes you think of inflight Wi-Fi and not the 80s rock band, we know what generation you hail from.  Welcome to the big city, friends; dig in.

One Sentence Journal:                  Unwritten.

One Big Task:                                 Taxes.

One Connection:                           Old friends in town.

Reading Tunes:                              I’ll Give you Everything by Jex Opolis

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Another story from Tim Urban and Wait But Why and his archives.  Urban has been writing for years, and as a subscriber, he may send out random emails with stories from his archives.  We are glad he does, and this one is from 2013, and it's a story about Jack:

Jack goes through all the ups and downs in a typical life while wondering why his happiness seems so transient.  Each victory fades faster than the last, making him wonder what he's looking for.  Written intelligently while also being funny, Urban also sites Dan Gilbert and his TED Talk on Impact Bias and follows that up with his own quote:

Sometimes we must shrink life down into moments to avoid being too high or too low with the big picture.  Remember, you are a pixel.

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The incredible women of The Atlantic’s’ Famous People column, Kait and Lizzie, decided with unflappable confidence to design and build a lamp for a lamp show hosted by a nearby art and design bookstore in Brooklyn.  Similar to several New Year Challenges and flirting with the episode on Friends where Monica's ID is stolen, and the woman who stole it used it to sign up for dance lessons, Monica thinks – "ya, I can do that!". 

The story goes in, and out of the art of making art and why many of us are not artists.  The lumpy and spiky lamps are now featured in all their glory on The Atlantic.

An engaging animated map from Visual Capitalist shows the rise of cities worldwide over the last three thousand years.  The animation and the data were compiled by Ollie Bye, a Featured Creator on the platform.  People who love data and design show up on websites that show off data and design!  In a skip-to-the-end feature – London didn't appear on the list until 1827 and remained one of the largest cities until New York beat it after WWI.

The multitalented Danny Elfman, famous for working with Tim Burton and creating some iconic music from the movies, went shopping.  Before Elfman, the music producer, there was Elfman, the frontman of the 80s band Oingo Boingo.  Amoeba records have a YouTube channel, and one series is called What’s In My Bag.  Elfman went through the music that made him, from The Beatles to Duke Ellington; his earliest influences were as varied as his own music would come to be. 

The Clash, XTC, and Madness found their way into Elfman’s sonic atmosphere, and after that, he knew he had to play a combination of all these sounds.  As Elfman describes a show he recently put together, it was:

We are big fans of Oingo Boingo and Danny Elfman, and that might be the best definition of alternative music we’ve ever heard.

Thank you for spending a few minutes with us. Here’s one for the road!

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