Digital Magpie #10

This is Digital Magpie #10

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Snoop 🔦

Snoop Dogg's antics at the Olympics are keeping me entertained. He travelled with the US Men’s Basketball team and is acting as a special correspondent for NBC (thanks largely to his reactions to the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.)

I especially loved his reaction when watching the GOAT Simone Biles - her comeback has been insane to witness. The Netflix doccie about her is worth a watch.

What If We Just Stopped Being So Available? 🤯

This is a great piece in The Atlantic…

Today’s norms of responsiveness are ridiculous. We shouldn’t apologize for failing to meet them.

Outside work, a delayed response can cause genuine problems too. If your partner texts you “I love you,” responding two days later is not a good idea. In personal communications, a lack of a speedy response risks signalling a lack of care. After all, your phone was right there.

“Our expectations for how quickly others expect us to respond are [often] inaccurate,” Bohns told me. “We think we have to respond right away, but actually people are okay if we take our time.” And yet we go around apologizing to one another constantly for our delays.

Loved this 😍

A Magpie! 🪶

The internet is so worth it some days - thanks Anne!

🥁 I can't believe someone broke into my house and stole my fruit.
I am peachless.

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