I'm On a Donkey. Here's 25 Things While Gone

What’s up you insights nerds?

BIG THINGS ARE COMING PEOPLE… Next week, something sweet drops in our MOON SHOT series. Edmond Lau, Colin Doerffler and I have been cooking up quite the scoop, and you’ll want to be there for that one.

But here’s the thing: I won’t be here to hold your hand through it.

I am, as of the moment you’re reading this, somewhere between a dive bar in Athens (anyone know Bar Frau???) and a donkey path on Hydra, aggressively not checking my inbox. The out-of-office is on.

So: leave me alone for 7-14 days. Please and thank you. (Although I’ll be LIVE on @dotdotdot.zip on IG for those not yet signed up) WOW. WHAT IS THIS HIGHLIGHTER NEW FEATURE???

However. We’re not monsters. There is a particular kind of cruelty in leaving someone with nothing good to read. The ancient Greeks called it akedia (a listless, directionless torpor that the monks who borrowed the word later dressed up as the sin of sloth) though the original was far more interesting than that. We refuse to be the cause of yours. So. We made arrangements.

We’ve built you a mystery box. (HIGHLIGHTTTT)

Below is a list of 25 rabbit holes. Things we genuinely think are worth your eyeballs, ears, or a quiet 14 minutes on a Sunday. Some are silly. Some will make you the most annoyingly interesting person at whatever table you’re sitting at next. One is a PDF scan of something that I still happened to have on my phone. And more…

The only rule: pick the one that sounds like you right now, click it, and report back.

How adventurous are you?

1. For when you have 20 minutes and can hold your phone vertically

2. For when you want to genuinely unsettle a dinner table with something true

3. For when you want to blow $100 billion in an afternoon

4. For when you want to watch someone be extraordinarily good at something you’ve never thought about

5. For when you’re actually quite alright and need nothing

6. For when you want to spend three hours inside the document that convinced a generation they could build their own world

7. For when you want to read a long, incredibly moving one

8. For when you want proof that you can't hide where you're from

9. For when you want to be reminded that roasting, at its highest level, is a martial art

10. For when you want to read something written in 1970 that accidentally invented a whole new way of writing

11. For when you want to go down a rabbit hole

12. For when it has been a day…

13. For when your brain is full but your ears are free to hear simply a great song

14. For when you want a conversation to listen to

15. For when you want to feel optimistic about humans

16. For when you want to watch something beautiful happen in real time with zero context

17. For when you want to read the article that invented the it girl

18. For when you want to feel like you attended a lecture at a university you didn’t go to

19. For when you want to learn something niche

20. For when you want to read the article that made the whole food world nervous

21. For when you’ve run out of things to say at parties and would like to fix that permanently

22. For when you need something that is technically background music but isn’t

23. For when you want to watch a film-length documentary but only have the attention span for a short

24. For when you just want to see something beautiful and be done with it

25. For when you want to see my exact current view (to be updated at 6PM CET 11.06)