Hi! Bit busy right now, so here’s an abridged version. My mind has been very occupied right now with the unrest back home in India, and if you want to know about them, the citizenship amendment act (CAA), the national registry of citizens (NRC) and the response thereafter, now is a good time. I feel torn and angry and upset. I wanted to write down something about it, but I don’t have the time now nor the energy. So I’ll leave it at this. Cya.

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1. Why I Am Not a Maker (paywalled - The Atlantic) - excellent essay from Debbie Chachra about why she doesn’t identify with the usual definitions of “making”/”creating”. She argues that people who curate, edit, critique, and teach are no less than those who create something new.

2. Diversity statements - excellent blog post by Izabella Laba about diversity statements and diversity efforts in academia. Please, if you’re trying to be nice to people traditionally excluded, do it properly.

3. Get me to the Greek - I loved this study of the redesign of yogurt company Chobani’s entire lineup.

4. Dust Bakery - Another design project, this time for a bakery in Sydney.

5. Bloomberg just bought CityLab—and put half its reporters out of a job - :

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6. At Tampa Bay farm-to-table restaurants, you’re being fed fiction - “farm-to-table” restaurants often lie, and take advantage of the high prices they can extract for mediocre food that has an attractive story accompanying it.

7. Why We Shouldn’t Call Adoptees “Lucky” - such a lovely, lovely essay.

8. How busyness leads to bad decisions

9. Managing Your Friendships With Software - (paywalled) piece from The Atlantic that talks about the rise of software that is used to keep track of your friends and friendships. Think of it as a birthday calendar, but for so much more. Would you use it?

10. Women are increasingly unhappy. This comic explains why.