Plus: Only 50% of Vinyl Collectors Own a Record Player; Ant Geopolitics; How Cat Memes Went Viral 100 Years Ago; & more...| Manufacturing Serendipity
Thoughts on writing; The Glass Door of Wikipedia’s Notable People; The Secret Inside One Million Check Boxes; Lauren Redniss' graphic biography, Radioactive; & more...| Manufacturing Serendipity
Learn how to write PR pitches that generate top-tier media coverage. Four live sessions delivered over Zoom, beginning October 10th.| Manufacturing Serendipity
A Better Way to Evaluate the Decisions you Make; Life on the Likert Scale; The Love Letter Generator that Foretold ChatGPT; Digital Collage by Beto Val; & more...| Manufacturing Serendipity
What the internet looked like in 1994; The telltale words that could identify generative AI text; What Game of Thrones did to the media; Nick Gentry’s Technological Portraits; & more...| Manufacturing Serendipity
Hello there :) Welcome to issue eighty four of Manufacturing Serendipity, a loosely connected, somewhat rambling collection of the unexpected things I’ve recently encountered. This newsletter is free to receive, but expensive to make :) If you’d like to support me, and can afford to do so, please consider| Manufacturing Serendipity
Thoughts on Ikea's new "dream job" campaign; a potted history of the pocket t-shirt; the shape of space; a relief map of Manhattan; & more...| Manufacturing Serendipity
Plus: The Most Commonly Used 4-Digit PIN Codes; Shape-Shifting Vines; The Rediscovery of a "Lost" Typeface; & more...| Manufacturing Serendipity
A lot of facts about eels (yes, really); WTAF chairs; Third Places; Grammatical Nerdery; Collage by Chantel Walkes; & more...| Manufacturing Serendipity
Plus: When do we stop finding new music?; The Fictional Brands Archive; Reclaiming Slowness; Micro knits from Althea Crome; & more...| Manufacturing Serendipity
Getting Lost; 20 Years of PostSecret; 2 Kinds of Attention; Artist's Block; Han Cao's Embroidered Photographs; & more...| Manufacturing Serendipity
Debunking the myth that "women don't ask for raises"; It's not you - dating apps are getting worse; gorgeous collages from Alexis Hilliard; & more...| Manufacturing Serendipity
Plus: An analysis of title drops in movies; Thoughts on the bulletpointization of books; João Charrua’s Origami Portraits; & more...| Manufacturing Serendipity
Some thoughts on being a "Bad" Manager: Experience Machines; a collection of Post-It Notes; glorious illustrations of Nudibranchs; & more...| Manufacturing Serendipity
Bogus Grunge Slang; The Origins of the F-Word; The Oldest Map of London; a tip for anyone who's struggling to write; and more...| Manufacturing Serendipity
Plus: Fruit-Shaped Bus Shelters, Portraits by Thandiwe Murui, & a whole lot more. In other news, how is it nearly February already?!| Manufacturing Serendipity
Learn how to write PR pitches that generate top-tier media coverage. Four live sessions delivered over Zoom, begins March 5th.| Manufacturing Serendipity
Thoughts on the New Year; Do Syllables Even Exist?; How People from Different Countries Laugh Online; Spanish Surrealist Remedios Varo's Art; & more...| Manufacturing Serendipity
Just a quick note to let you know that I’ll be closing ticket sales for my Ideation for Digital PR course at midnight (UK time) on Tuesday 16th January.| worderist.substack.com
"Think more strategically" they said. But how on earth do you do that?| worderist.substack.com
I realise that I don't actually have a problem with time management, but I really do struggle with emotion management; PLUS: How loneliness reshapes our brains; Lego artwork, & more...| worderist.substack.com
Ideas from Oliver Burkeman; a comic from Chaz Hutton; a study which suggests the Earth's Core has stopped(!); the Wonders of Street View; Gio Swaby’s Textile Portraits; & more...| worderist.substack.com
