Things We Loved: Thanksgiving Edition
By AC Team
Happy Thanksgiving! (To our friends outside the US, happy Thursday!) Wherever you may be, we hope you’re experiencing a week filled creative insights.
To add to your Stimuli Queue, we’ve collected a series of articles and videos that inspired us this week. The full list is below, or you can head over to preview the weekly stack in Delicious. If you come across an article during the week you think we should include, share the link with us on our Facebook page or tweet it to us!
Five Things We Loved
5. Let’s kick things off this week by asking where the pardoned Thanksgiving turkeys are now. McSweeney’s has the answer and it’s not pretty. Why do we eat turkey on Thanksgiving anyway? Thankfully, questions like that keep the Mental_Floss editors up at night.
4. Brain Pickings shares two book reviews we think you’ll find inspiring: Robert Levine’s Free Ride, which takes a deep look at over-aggregation on the web; and PANTONE: A Color History of the 20th Century.
3. Yes, there’s an app for that—whatever your ‘that’ is—but is it really necessary? Boagworld offers some advice on whether or not you need an app.
2. We face pressures on a daily basis, some external and some internal. Seth Godin offers advice on handling the pressure from others to work for free. The 99% tells us why grit—our ability to keep pushing toward our long-term goals—matters more than talent.
1. To sing or not to sing? Finally, we bring you two videos that highlight the joys of unnecessary creating: a high school girl has to memorize Hamlet’s “To be or not be,” so she sets it to music; and a frustrated writer escapes his troubles by learning to make things with his hands. What began as a hobby turns into an obsession, and finally, a career making knives for the chefs of New York.
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