I'll holla: a suite of recommendations
Hi friends,
I keep going in to write a newsletter, and then I get preoccupied with something else - and my time management has been very poor.
I have over 300 unread emails.
I stopped my workout regime.
I keep making and deleting playlists because I get annoyed with hearing the same songs over and over again.
I got my hair straightened and got tired of being straight, so I got goddess braids randomly on Saturday and hated them on Sunday because I felt like I looked spastic. I got all the goddess hair cut out on Monday.
But… my skin has randomly been thriving.
I’ve been all over the place, but I am happy to be here today and have committed to getting some beautiful harmony in my life so that I will be in your inbox next week and the week ever, and hopefully, the week after that.
Being that I have been all over the place, I have been saving a million things to my Pocket app to read later, so I am sharing them here with you today.
I miss Barack and thought this was a great conversation between him and Hasan Minhaj.
Watch Platonic on Apple TV - it’s dumb but makes me laugh.
Also, watch 85 South: Ghetto Legends on Netflix; this also made me laugh so hard.
Why our allergies are getting worse – and what to do about it, NPR
How LeBron James is smashing stereotypes around Black fatherhood, Andscape
Two notes on ambition:
On Soft Ambition, Marie Claire
Who I Am I Without My Ambition, Downtime Newsletter
The Path to Happiness is Narrow but Easy, The Atlantic
An Ode to Middle Age, The Atlantic
Five Reasons Why 2023 Has Yet to Yield a No. 1 Hip-Hop Album or Single, Billboard
The Hr-Ification of Marriage, Bustle
We Should All Be Samathas: Celebrating the Best Friend of ‘Sex and the City’ for Its 25th Anniversary, Shondaland
Caroline Calloway Survived Cancellation Now She’s Doubling Down, Vanity Fair
The Beautiful Chaos of the Notes App, New York Times
Sana Javeri Kadri’s Oakland Home Bursts With Colorful Mumbai Pride, Cup of Jo
That’s it for this week - I’ll holla.