What's got my attention this week #99
Books, TV, podcasts and links to stories I think you’ll like
Above the paywall today: free advice worth paying for, why are so many of us still in gynae hell, Kevin Spacey’s ‘lifetime achievement’ award and what we can learn from 1001 nights.
Below the paywall today: how it really feels to live through an internet firestorm, the TV show filling that White Lotus shaped hole, how friendships change as you age, elders and intuition, reading retreats, the myth of effortlessness and more.
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• “I remember somebody telling me, ‘Oh you can’t make movies without the male. The main character has to be a guy. Girls will go to stories about boys. But boys won’t go to stories about girls.” Sofia Coppola on 25 years of proving them wrong with the Virgin Suicides.
• Stunning piece by
• shares the best piece of free advice she’s paid good money for.
• Last week I wrote about my own experience of taking almost thirty years to get diagnosed with adenomyosis, aka gynae hell. The response was overwhelming (and depressing). Here are just some of the comments.
• The online wisdom industrial complex.
• on what we can learn from 1001 nights.
• Kevin Spacey got a lifetime achievement award at Cannes… (Just leaving this here.)