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Alison Iven 4/28/25 Alison Iven 4/28/25

What I read today April 21

  • In Defense of Temporary Obsessions, Life Annotated

  • I Trained at an Amazon Center in Hangzhou. You’d Be Surprised What They Think of Trump., NYT

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Alison Iven 4/21/25 Alison Iven 4/21/25

What I read today April 17

  • Radical Change isn’t Free, The Guardian

  • What Does the AuraCamera 6000 See?, Believer

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Alison Iven 4/17/25 Alison Iven 4/17/25

What I read today March 31 - April 1

  • Trump gets $100M deal with Skadden law firm amid pressure campaign, The Hill

  • ‘No Cake, No Entry’: More Than 1,000 Picnic to Celebrate the Love of Cake, NYTimes

  • Skadden, a Top Law Firm, Is in Talks to Avert an Executive Order, NY Times

  • ProPublica wanted to find more sources in the federal government. So it brought a truck., Nieman Lab

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Alison Iven 3/4/25 Alison Iven 3/4/25

What I read today March 4

  • The Age of Contrast, Crown Creative

  • Demystifying Hospitality Strategy, Crown Creative

I’ve been impressed by Crown’s design work for a while, but they’ve relaunched their website and the writing on these two pieces is great. They offer a unique point of view and are engaging.

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Alison Iven 3/4/25 Alison Iven 3/4/25

What I read today Jan 31, 2025

  • The Language of Abortion in Trump’s America, Pring Mag

  • Understanding Trump, University of Chicago Press

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What I read today Dec 11

ENDING "TIMELESSNESS" AS A VALUE, For Scale

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Alison Iven 12/11/24 Alison Iven 12/11/24

What I ready Nov 29

Santa Maria, Places

An NYC locksmith has become a viral sensation for turning subway tokens into keys, Gothamist

  • I used to cut my keys here just for the novelty of it

Tracing the fascist roots of the Nazi demonstration in the Short North, Matter News

The View From Tokyo: the fascinating origins, and triumphant resurgence, of Risograph in Japan, Its Nice That

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Alison Iven 11/29/24 Alison Iven 11/29/24

What I read today Sept 27

  • Elizabeth Goodspeed on the power and perils of the mockup, It’s Nice THat

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Alison Iven 9/26/24 Alison Iven 9/26/24

What I read today Sept 26

  • A bottle of water per email: the hidden environmental costs of using AI chatbots, Washington Post

    • I really like ai - makes writing so very much easier - but I have been avoiding the data on how much water and electricity it takes. ugh.

  • Low Morale and High Attrition Plague Wexner Center for the Arts, Hyperallergic

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Alison Iven 9/26/24 Alison Iven 9/26/24

What I read today Sept 21, 2024

I swear I still read stuff, I’m just not archiving as avidly

  • Language Barrier: Rethinking How We Talk About Architecture, Azure

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Alison Iven 9/21/24 Alison Iven 9/21/24

What I read today April 11, 2024

I’ve been reading stuff, I promise! I’m just not recording it very well.

  • Les Wexner’s Second Life: How The Epstein-Tarnished Billionaire Is Quietly Reshaping Ohio, Forbes

  • Pompeii: Breathtaking new paintings found at ancient city, BBC

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Alison Iven 1/13/24 Alison Iven 1/13/24

What I read today Dec 18

  • He Made a Magazine, 95 Issues, While Hiding From the Nazis in an Attic, NY Times


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Alison Iven 12/18/23 Alison Iven 12/18/23

What I read today Dec 11

  1. Neglected middle class may be key to growing stagnant art market, The Art Newspaper


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What I read today Nov 30, 2023

  • Lost Columbus: Ohio Stadium’s Construction Forced a Partial Reroute of the Olentangy River, Columbus Monthly

  • Mysterious woman tells school board that Scholastic book sparked porn addiction, Popular Information

  • Routine vaccinations against polio and measles are falling, Wyoming Public Media

  • Arizona gave families public money for private schools. Then private schools raised tuition, Hechinger Report

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Alison Iven 11/30/23 Alison Iven 11/30/23

What I Read today Nov 17

  • ORIGINALITY MAKES HEADLINES IN NYC AND LA THANKS TO ADIDAS ORIGINALS, High Snobiety
    Brands making newspapers are a THING. I feel ahead of the trend

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Alison Iven 11/17/23 Alison Iven 11/17/23

What I read today Nov 6

  • When Nest Was What’s Next Looking back at the fearlessly eccentric magazine that Condé Nast was too afraid to buy., Curbed

  • A Champion Of the Quirky Writes Finis, NY Times

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Alison Iven 10/25/23 Alison Iven 10/25/23

What I read today Oct 20-21

  • Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible, Neiman Reports

  • Doomsday Diaries, The Baffler

  • How Women Can Develop — and Promote — Their Personal Brand, HBR
    Solid advice


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Alison Iven 10/20/23 Alison Iven 10/20/23

What I read today Oct 12

  • Teens Love LinkedIn To some high-schoolers burned out on FOMO and thirst traps, the networking platform is “the way social media should be.” The Cut

  • If Every Brand Is Funny Online, Is Anything Funny?, NY Times

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Alison Iven 10/12/23 Alison Iven 10/12/23

What I read today Sept 26, 2023

  • How to Build a Content Calendar, Link in Bio

    • Don’t be afraid to tell the same story over and over again.

    • Identify your brand’s universal truth.

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Alison Iven 9/26/23 Alison Iven 9/26/23

What I read today Aug 11

  • Why this CEO is bullish on country clubs — and on the hunt to buy more, Business First
    This David Pillsbury has got two recent articles in biz first… intersting…

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