Every Tuesday I share five things I've liked and think you might like too. Here are this week’s Five Things…

1. I really enjoyed this conversation between Malcolm Gladwell and legendary producer, Rick Rubin. I learned that Rick Rubin produced my favourite Johnny Cash song, Hurt. I also learned that it's actually a cover of a Nine Inch Nails song — I much prefer Johnny Cash's version. As Malcolm Gladwell says in the podcast, it's amazing how a song can take on a whole new life and personality when performed by another person.

2. A brie-lliant (sorry) look at the history of cheese.

3. I read this post by Derek Sivers this morning. I love his idea of keeping a "thoughts on" journal, which is like a daily journal but on a specific topic. Such a great way of recording your thoughts on a subject and seeing how they evolve over time. I'm definitely borrowing this!

4. An interesting piece reviewing The Birth Of Loud. I haven't read the book yet but the review itself is worth reading. It has a great title too: The Feud That Birthed the Electric Guitar

5. It's been a good week for new music. Nils Frahm has released a new EP, Encores 2. And Josin has released a new album, In The Blank Space. Both have got a lot of play this week!

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Every Tuesday I share five things I've liked and think you might like too. Here are this week’s Five Things…

1. I went on a bit of a NPR Tiny Desk Concert binge last week, the highlight was this performance by Thundercat. He's a beast of a bass player!

2. So I've definitely been saying this wrong my whole life: If you’ve got ‘another thing coming’, you’ve got another think coming

3. “If the timeline of Earth were mapped onto the human arm, it would begin around the shoulder where the earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago. Animals originated within the palm, but the myriad forms alive today exploded onto the scene around the first knuckle...” And where does humanity make an appearance? The tip of the fingertip of the index finger! There's a great diagram of this near the top of the article.

4. I love Liz Climo's cartoons. This one is a new favourite. I love the accompanying quote from Martin Luther King Jr. too: “If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.”

5. A fun music fact for you: “according to MBW research, the average number of credited songwriters in the US market’s Top 10 streaming hits of 2018, per-track, was a surprisingly high 9.1” - and that's the average! 🤯

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Every Tuesday I share five things I've liked and think you might like too. Here are this week’s Five Things…

1. One of my goals for the year has been to read more and so far so good! 15 days in and I've finished reading my second book. The Courage To Be Disliked is a short book that explores the psychology of Alfred Alder through conversations between a philosopher and a youth. A lot of Alder's theories are a little counter intuitive but the conversation format used in the book made them easy to comprehend. It's one of those books that I wish my 16 year old self could have read!

2. Talking of new year's goals, if you have any habits (good or bad!) that you want to keep track of, check out Tally: The Anything Tracker. I've been using it to track various habits that I want to enforce, as well as how much coffee I've been consuming and have found it very motivating. The app is well designed and looks great which is a nice bonus too.

3. If you're willing to tolerate "strong bloody violence", I recommend you add Narcos Mexico to your watch list on Netflix. As per the original Narcos series it's very good! Can't wait for series 2.

4. "When starlings flock together, wheeling and darting through the sky in tight, fluid formations, we call it a murmuration" - This is a really beautiful collection of photos.

5. Without doubt our brains are amazing things. Which makes it all the more enjoyable when we catch them making mistakes. Read this tweet and watch the video... Be warned, the tweet definitely contains a rude word and depending on your interpretation the video might do too.

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Every Tuesday I share five things I've liked and think you might like too. Here are this week’s Five Things…

1. I had a good chuckle watching this. Poor lady!

2. "To be in the top 1% takes a combination of luck and magical talent. But to be in the top 5%, one in twenty, is mostly about choices." — Food for thought for the new year!

3. "We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing – an actor, a writer – I am a person who does things – I write, I act – and I never know what I am going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun." — I really love this quote from Stephen Fry. Austin Kleon expands on it in this piece.

4. I just finished reading Moneyland by Oliver Bullough. An eye-opening read about how the super-rich hide their money to wield power and avoid taxes. What a world we live in! I highly recommend you read it.

5. John Malkovich is a special type of human.

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Every Tuesday I share five things I've liked and think you might like too. Here are this week’s Five Things…

1. A follow up piece on a story I shared in a previous Five Things on Jered Threatin, the wannabe Rock Star who tried to trick his way to stardom. I really, really hope all the attention he's gotten from this doesn't work out in his favour.

2. Another fantastic episode of the Reply All podcast. Starring a small town in Wisconsin, a local politician who's well out of his depth and a massive corporation looking for somewhere to put a massive factory. Everything you need for a great story... apparently!

3. Are you an ethical consumer? I've been thinking about this a fair bit recently, and I'm not sure I can answer that with a solid "yes". As a user of Amazon Prime I've developed the terrible habit of every now and then ordering a thing, then an hour or so later ordering another thing that I've realised I need and then the next day ordering another thing, all with next day delivery. I hadn't stopped to think of what has to happen in the background to fulfil these disjointed mini shopping sprees. Something to improve upon in 2019. — Yes, You Can Be an Ethical Tech Consumer. Here’s How.

4. Was 536 AD the worst year to be alive? It doesn't sound great: “A mysterious fog plunged Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia into darkness, day and night — for 18 months. […] Temperatures in the summer of 536 fell 1.5°C to 2.5°C, initiating the coldest decade in the past 2300 years. Snow fell that summer in China; crops failed; people starved.”

5. 🎧 Sigur Rós have added another hour of ambient music to their Liminal mixtape.

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PS. I’m going to be taking the next couple of weeks off. Five Things will return on the 8th January 2019. Have a great Christmas and see you in 2019!