No.31
A curated mix of thoughts, discoveries and fresh perspectives to kickstart your day.
Jonah Hill sat down with Rick Rubin on Tetragrammaton recently. Two hours, wide-ranging — work, family, loss, the craft of making things, what it means to be present in your own life.
One thread that stayed with us: Jonah came off social media about five years ago. He talks about what that’s given him back. Not seeing millions of opinions a day. Not trying to keep up with the Joneses. Getting to think about what his own opinions actually are. From that quieter place, other things have followed, including the two whiteboards he once kept in his kitchen. One for gratitude. The other for positive actions, small things he could do for other people. “Call mom” was one of them.
A lot of this comes back to the work he did with his therapist, Phil Stutz. Which sent us back to the documentary Jonah made about him in 2022 — quietly one of the best things on Netflix, and just as worth your time now as it was then.
Porcelain is 26 years old. You’ve heard it in films, television shows, and commercials. In the background of more moments than you could count.
Moby played it live last week. The track hasn’t changed. You have. It’s the same reason thousands rushed to buy Oasis tickets — that gap is where the feeling lives.
There’s always a lot of noise around Coachella, but this cut through.
This is an ad from Pinterest. We don’t normally feature ads — this one we thought was worth sharing. Sixty seconds of home movies and family photos pulled from their own employees’ archives. A child’s voiceover asking how anyone got through a day without posting about it. How they knew what they liked without likes. How they knew who they were without the rest of the world telling them.
Then the line: The best thing you can find online is a reason to go offline.
Worth sitting with.
The best discoveries come from friends, not algorithms. Forward or share if you think of someone who might enjoy this.
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