good people share
a low-key music, internet, and community digest.
dear good people,
i recently helped a friend with something small and instead of using ai to generate a mechanical thank you note, he transcended thoughtfulness by sharing “a few things that recently caught [his] attention, in the spirit of the [good people share] newsletter.”
this was the ultimate gesture since curating a few fun things is a sincere approach to maintaining strong relationships and the ultimate form of friendship street cred (at least in my book).
this friend’s good deed was enough to galvanize me to draft a new edition of good people share, amidst the deluge of multi-tasking, doom-scrolling, list making, group chats, self-improvement obsessions or worries about putting words to the crazy sh*t happening around us.
thanks for reading, sharing, and checking-in.
good music
the april playlist was updated earlier this month and may is coming together.
every month is intended for a spectrum of moods, and to be played from top to bottom. you can find monthly playlists dating back to 2016 in my spotify bio.
good content
so much for the cool kids playing chess.
hoping that my favorite snack bar (17g of protein) is the trick to getting ripped.
waiting to tackle new year’s resolutions until the second half of the year still counts — setting boundaries and consciously choosing to feel more overwhelmed than underwhelmed.
what’s so hard about not being an a**hole on an airplane?
fade in…guy wearing baggy pants…writing a newsletter and sharing an article about latest swing from skinny to wide.
which would you hire first - a driver, chef, or personal 24/7 instagram content consumer?
every self-help guidebook in a (11 rule) nutshell. sleep, exercise, eat, chill out, repeat, seems right to me.
find me someone reading this who doesn’t have a bunch of tabs open on their browser.
i’m a jacket guy so making limited edition jackets and selling them in batches, 4 days a year, is my kind of brand concept.
scammy text messages can be outrageous — “dr. john, this is anna. how is my horse recovering?” — but they’re actually part of a $75 billion global scam and human trafficking operation.
i couldn’t have said it better myself: “this is one of those rare videos that you click on with no expectations and then 30 minutes later your perspective on life is shifted.'“
return to normal doesn’t apply to the the largest year-over-year increase in poverty in nyc since 2012.
talk about role models. at 93, he’s as fit as a 40-year-old.
26-year-old steve jobs on how to save the world, “and, I guess, one of the things that motivates a lot of people that i’ve seen, that actually get out and do something in any different field, is that we all sort of eat food that other people cook, and wear clothing that other people make, and speak a language that other people evolved, and use someone else’s mathematics, and we’re sorta taking from this giant pool constantly. and the most ecstatic thing in the whole world is to actually put something back into that pool.”
see you there nyc: helado negro (april 24), freddie gibbs and madlib (may 11), hermanos gutiérrez (may 18) and hopefully newport jazzfest (august 2-4).
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