[Vol. 1 Issue #192]
Issue 192 was out late; we chalk it up to March Madness, and it had nothing to do with brackets. Today we ask a few tough questions and follow them with food and the future. To finish up, we go back to the beautiful album days of the 80s while we are Catching Up with Depeche Mode!
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Big Stories
Just for Klicks
Isaac Saul, who writes the Tangle newsletter and produces and hosts the Tangle Podcast, sent an interesting email this week.
The story concerns bad news, doom-scrolling, clickbait, and why we can't look away. The first thing it made me think of when I read the headline was a concern. The Tangle Podcast is in the daily rotation at With A Shout; we've written about it before. It is a trusted news source and has never sent out anything supercharged or "clickbait-ie." For those reasons, the concern was genuine when reading the headline, and the story was important. This is also one of the ways you can avoid or reduce the amount of bad news, doom-scrolling, and clickbait you engage in. Seek out sources of content that don't engage in it.
Who’s Following
The more we get away from in-real-life and into digital life, the more our communication suffers. We wrote about the number of followers many of the most controversial people have on social media, and we speculate on how many of them are good people who follow controversy not because they will ever fall for it but because the more outrageous, the more we think we need to know it. Like most comic book villains, they only exist when we are willing to pay attention and lend them our ears and eyes.
A Question
We added the following question to the comments on Tangle:
What do you think about a publication or personality’s role in the clickbait argument? As a reader/listener of the Tangle Podcast over the last year, Isaac Saul is a trusted source of high-quality information. If he sends something out with little context, the headline appears more personal than professional. This is not a knock against the point you make in this piece. However, I clicked on the link immediately after seeing it out of genuine concern. The article was great, and the topic is also important - one of the ways I stay away from too much doom is by cultivating an extensive list of content from producers like Tangle!
What do you think? Add your thoughts to our comments:
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Spotlight
Vacation Staple
Publix is a higher-end grocery store we frequent when traveling to Tampa, Florida. If we are on vacation, it's the first stop we make after checking in. Depending on the location, it will be pricey but cheaper than eating out every meal on vacation. For a primer on what to look for if you ever find yourself at a Publix, Spruce Eats gave us this piece 5 Things to Buy the First Time You Shop at Publix. The list includes the Publix Sub, which we agree with, They bake their own bread, which is also on the list, and the deli meat is exceptional. We have not tried fried chicken, but it's on the list for the next vacation. For more on the list, check out the article.
Big Things
Industrial Designs
Floating By Design
There was a debate in the office about what block we should drop this story in; Industrial Design, the obvious choice, or Inspiration Nation; why?
Inspired Design
The story is on Moss and Fog - Part futuristic promise and part beautiful art, depending on your generation, you can envision Marty McFly zooming around the future on this. If you need to know who McFly is, appreciate that a working hoverboard may be around the corner.
Big Noise
Sound Checks
Depeche Mode in 5 Songs
An excellent gear site also has good music stories. MusicRadar produced a retrospective piece on 5 songs producers need to hear by Depeche Mode, which are songs everyone should listen to. Depeche Mode began in the late 70s early 80s as synth-pop was getting started. It was a four-piece, and in the beginning, it was a mix of keyboards, synthesizers, programming machines, and no traditional instruments (i.e., guitars, drums, bass). Lyrics and vocals that accompanied the techno sound were also more systematic and compulsive, more Brit punk or goth, a perfect recipe for 80s earworms.
More Album
Like many albums in the 80s, Depeche Mode is best listened to in album form – Music for the Masses is better than Never Let Me Down Again or Strangelove. Construction Time Again is better than Everything Counts and More Than a Party. Each song is better when played as a whole album, and they fit together to form a sonic puzzle worth putting together.
Words from Gen X
Words from Gen X in age or spirit.
"I like my money where I can see it - hanging in my closet” - Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City
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