#59: List-a-Mania VII: Double Tables

A bunch of stuff to catch up on while you're practicing social distancing!

This week, Office Hours will be shifting to a daily e-mail on Monday - Fridays packed to the gills with cool/interesting/non-coronavirus stuff that you may have missed. Welcome back to List-a-Mania!!!

CULTURE THINGS

• It's Time to Do the Things You Keep Putting Off. Here's How

• The Village Voice feature that became the 1991 classic movie “New Jack City”

• The Playboy interview with Gawker Media founder Nick Denton is a fun read, even it will just make you miss Gawker as much as I do

• How did feeling good about ourselves become a never-to-be-attained goal which makes us miserable? 

MUSIC THINGS:

• These Rappers Are Not Rich, Bro

• How Jason Isbell Learned To Trust His Gut

• The oral history of 50 Cent’s “Get Rich or Die Tryin’”

MARKETING THINGS:

• Click Fraud: How much of your online audience is fake?

• How a cartel invented and marketed the modern diamond 

• The Economics of Infomercials

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TUNES!

PLAYLIST: SONGS YOU FORGOT FROM THE 2010’s

A bunch of songs that you probably haven’t heard in a bit. If you wrote about music the last decade, get ready for a nice trip down the memory lane of PR emails in your inbox!

Spotify:

WASH YOUR HANDS! CHECK ON YOUR LOVED ONES! BE SAFE OUT THERE!

Office Hours is written by Ernest Wilkins. Follow me on Twitter/IG @ErnestWilkins or email me here.