Worth It #3
the very best of what I'm reading + watching + listening to
Welcome to Worth It, a weekly(ish) round-up of the very best of what I’m reading, watching, listening to, and occasionally even cooking. Only the things absolutely worth your valuable minutes. Hope you’re feeling clicky!
This delightful novel about rich people (also fun as an audiobook). My review of it is on Instagram here.
This podcast about recognizing and transcending our biases.
This always-beautiful newsletter, written by a friend.
This TV show, which is like if The West Wing were a political satire and all the people were idiots.
This New Yorker article about AI as an abstract concept, written by the author of this book.
This article about the firing of America’s most influential conservative.1
These words from Octavia Butler:
"I think," my mother said to me one day when I was ten, "that everyone has something that they can do better than they can do anything else. It's up to them to find out what that something is." We were in the kitchen by the stove. She was pressing my hair while I sat bent over someone's cast-off notebook, writing. I had decided to write down some of the stories I'd been telling myself over the years. When I didn't have stories to read, I learned to make them up. Now I was learning to write them down.
This poem, about the persistence of the divine:
The Thread | Denise Levertov
Something is very gently,
invisibly, silently,
pulling at me—a thread
or net of threads
finer than cobweb and as
elastic. I haven't tried
the strength of it. No barbed hook
pierced and tore me. Was it
not long ago this thread
began to draw me? Or
way back? Was I
born with its knot about my
neck, a bridle? Not fear
but a stirring
of wonder makes me
catch my breath when I feel
the tug of it when I thought
it had loosened itself and gone.
And finally, this tweet for word nerds.2
Have a happy April weekend y’all—you get only four every year!
Boy, bye. Politics all the way aside, some people are just annoying.
Because [sic] definitely has a personality, and that personality is “passive-aggressive.”