• The MetroCard’s 28 Years As a Blank Canvas, Curbed

• IT’S YOUR FRIENDS WHO BREAK YOUR HEART, The Atlantic

Making New Art with No Research

Research is the number one deterrent when it comes to making art, because it’s the fastest way to see if what you want to make “has been done before” (that’s in air-quotes because we all know deep down that NOTHING has been done the same way that we’re doing it). Imagine the art that would flow out of you without any sort of “but what will THEY think of it” hang-ups. That’s really what we all want to see, right? We want to see the most surprising, most vulnerable, most specific-to-your-mind-right-now type shit. The more you care about that one person that kinda did something sorta like it one time, the less you’re gonna make anything. You can always research after the fact, if you’re really hung up on it… but at least you will have made something! Making things feels amazing.

• David Brandon Geeting (aka DBG)
  

The Daily Heller: A Saga of the American Crayon, Print

• Why so many country clubs are undertaking massive capital-improvement projects, Golf Digest

Fran Lebowitz on life without the internet: ‘If I’m cancelled, don’t tell me!’, The Guardian
Can you equate Lebowitz to Patti Smith?

• Writing to Tell, Writing to Sell, Nomad

• Law School Accrediting Panel Votes to Make LSAT Optional, WSJ

• If You Don’t Already Live in a Sponge City, You Will Soon, Wired

• Fixing product design career paths with the Mirror Model, Medium

• Libraries Can Unite a Lonely, Divided Nation, Bloomberg City Lab
  Could this analogy be made for a public media company ? Select quotes:

Libraries are so much more than storehouses for books. They are crucial pieces of social infrastructure. When we talk about infrastructure, we typically mean the built structures and utilities — like roads, bridges, subways and sewer systems — that underpin our communities.

reknitting the human connections that are being lost to remote work.

“built to serve as a kind of citizenship factory,”

• The Day the Dinosaurs Died, The New Yorker
  Quite long, but I ended breathless

• How "Hang on Sloopy" Became an Ohio State Marching Band Tradition, Columbus Monthly

• Pickleball Entrepreneurs See Green as the Fast-Growing Sport Takes Off in Columbus, Columbus Monthly

What Democrats Don’t Understand About Rural America, NYT

Marketers are the hypemen of business

Music writer Mickey Hess expands the term as follows: "a hype man is a figure who plays a central but supporting role within a group, making his own interventions, generally aimed at hyping up the crowd while also drawing attention to the words of the MC"

Email Newsletter, Top of Ohio Patriots

• Too many places are STERILE and TORCHED — let’s make them COOL and FUNKY, Blackbird Spyplane
  Am I vibey and cool because I have mismatched plates at home?

I saw a job posting from Netflix looking for a Design Org Manager and got curious…

• What Exactly Is An HR Business Partner (HRBP)?, Personio

• The Three Key Phases Of Change Management Processes, Personio

• ORG DESIGN, Stratechi

• Analysis: With Issue 2, Ohio Republicans seem to go to war with peace-loving Yellow Springs, WVXU

Storefront for Art & Architecture celebrates its 40th anniversary with an archival, retrospective exhibition, The Architect’s Newspaper

• My Parents Are Hackers Out of Necessity, NYT

• Whatever Happened to the Starter Home?, NYT

Why you’re probably not paying your social media manager enough, Long-Dash

• Research Reveals Long-Term Harm of State Pre-K Program, Psychology Today

• JPMorgan Is Building a Giant Travel Agency, WSJ

• The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse, The Guardian
  Terrifying

• Herzog & de Meuron and Piet Oudolf team for Philadelphia’s forthcoming Calder Gardens, The Architect’s Newspaper

• Voters to decide on $1.5 billion bond issue that includes money to expand affordable housing, WOSU

• READY FOR THEIR 'THIRD ACT': Amy Acton and Jennifer Peterson say Rapid 5’s purpose is their passion, Columbus Business First

• The Book That Explains Our Cultural Stagnation, NYT