Linky Fridays - July 22/22

What have the H.A.T. Scouts found this week?

Mark Dykeman

Jul 22, 2022

Here's some interesting things have found this week:

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Great Books + Great Minds

Rebecca Wilson's Digital Habitat of Business Books

Great Books + Great Minds is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. One of Scotland-based Rebecca Wilson’s life mantras is to never stop learning. In her case as a business efficiency expert involved with process streamlining, productivity optimization, and profitability impr…

2 years ago · 1 like · 1 comment · Diamond-Michael Scott

You can find Rebecca's short reviews on YouTube.

Kneeling Bus

#187: A Rainbow in Curved Air

Although the classical 20th-century music snob still endures vestigially, the species peaked with Gen X before breathing its dying gasps through Elder Millennials and ‘00s hipsterdom, at which point poptimism and the internet’s democratizing forces finally crushed the phenomenon for good (Pitchfork not only helped euthanize it but provided the movement…

2 years ago · 8 likes · 1 comment · Drew Austin

I'm a Gen Xer, what can I say?

The Metropolitan

The Metropolitan #28: Friends

I didn’t know many boys in 1984. I was at an all-girls school, so that was no use, and my extended family - which included the usual proportion of boys - was 200 miles away in Wales. At the weekends my dad coached the boys’ under-15s rugby team at London Welsh, which brought him into regular contact with the then-Labour leader Neil Kinnock whose son Ste…

2 years ago · 5 likes · 3 comments · Rowan Davies

Touching thoughts about male friendship.

The Intrinsic Perspective

Why does culture get less happy year after year?

Lately I’ve been working through some old criterion collection movies with my family, and the first thing you notice with old movies or TV is how happy everyone is. Like how abnormally, freakishly, stupidly, weirdly, cheerful. The past is always fundamentally unknowable to us, although the mechan…

2 years ago · 5 likes · Erik Hoel

Reading the above, shows like The Good Place, Parks and Recreation and The Good Place were tonics. Also highly recommend Detectorists, a wonderful little British show.

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Time to release the H.A.T. Scouts for another week!

Rowan Davies

Thanks very much Mark! And that's a few new Substacks for me to subscribe to. Not like I have to earn a living or anything...

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Kiki

I love a good roundup post! Thanks for leading me to that Kneeling Bus piece; as a Gen Yer (or Elder Millennial, I guess) with a Gen X older brother, music knowledge and snobbery was a huge part of my childhood. Now I feel like I’m embarrassingly a slave to the Spotify/Apple Music algorithm. I miss the era of mixtapes!

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