life be hard
Hello.
August in the world was a tough one, so cheers to that being behind us.
(Afghanistan, Haiti, etc., I’m thinking of you.)
At home, things were 100% less important and yet managed to sustain unsustainably high stress levels. Like when the 7-year-old was going nuts at one of her brothers.
Cue her, screaming: “PUT DOWN YOUR IPAD RIGHT NOW OR YOU’LL HAVE TO GO THINK!!!!!!!!!!”
Enter me, stage left, also screaming: “WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!! WHY ARE YOU SCREAMING?!!”
Her, with aplomb: “I’m being a mother.”
Touche.
Whether you loved or hated The White Lotus, the main thing I would tell you to do is NOT to download the soundtrack and try to work to it because “it was pretty music”. Actually, it was INSANE music and your cortisol levels will never recover.
Also, this:
Dumpster Fires
(But in a good way.) This is a Tik Tok meme where aspiring university students punk their parents with fake video submissions for college scholarship applications.
Reading, etc.
The best non-fiction books of the summer.
The Silent Patient was a wild thriller, and the new novel by the author, The Maidens, is equally nuts. My mom read it in a few hours, as did I. I can’t say I recommend it exactly, but I can’t say I don’t recommend it?
This insane Sonoma, California home is shweeeeet.
A cold war over hacking a McDonald’s ice cream sandwich.
Startups, Investing, the Internet, etc.:
What you need to know about fundraising if you’re a founder in an emerging market…->
Is Venture Capital worth the risk? Oldie, goodie.
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Prayers for Afghanistan, Haiti and everyone else who’s in the shit.
And, in memoriam:
Life be hard,
Claire