new avatar, who dat.
who knows if this email will be open-able! not me!
hey, remember me?
i invest in startups, write books, and mother some sub-humans. i also write a weekly newsletter about life in the underbelly of the world. (i live in argentina). books, interesting links, and business and startup-y stuff are all featured with irregular abandon.
you are one of 15,000 special people on this list. maybe you’ve been here awhile, maybe you’d been here a minute. either way hi!
also, SORRY. in advance.
i’m switching my email service right now and this is my first email from the new service and i’m 99.9% sure something about this mailing is gonna be totally messed up. because these things never work out as they should.
as is my usual, i’ve got a list of things you might be interested in this week. here goes:
these sailor people are stuck on SHIPS in the pandemic and it just may be worse than being stuck with small children.
i started watching selling sunset on netflix and had a lot of important questions. also, i got a new avatar that makes me look 14. not sure which was more important.
pam satran, who is my friend and also the mom of my friend, wrote the book and tv show YOUNGER. she has a new book out and the idea for it came on a massage table. i have long praised the value of massages for default mode network processing to come up with great ideas! learn more here.
meditation is also a great way to access the default mode network. i heard a fantastic talk this week from a meditation expert who works with famous people (jerry seinfeld!), single moms, and kids in schools. it was awesome and he recommended the morning meditation as the one-not-to-be-missed. i took it to heart, and i was reminded of the article i wrote a few years ago on everything I learned from meditating for 200 days straight.)
an interesting read: the pandemic appears to have spared africa and experts don’t know why.
i’m continuing my back to the basics pursuit of travel memoirs i love. this time, with on mexican time, the book that made me move to mexico 16 years ago.
that is all,
claire
p.s. the nanny is sick. let that just sink in. now i know what you’re thinking: HOW DO I DO IT ALL? HOW DO I WRITE THIS HERE NEWSLETTER? ah hell, i let the three illiterate interns take over my pod long ago. it’s going about as well as you’d expect. (FML)