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the old girls club digest: sample 2
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October 04, 2024 • est. reading time:6 minutes
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Member recs: this browser extension to get past article paywalls, this non-alcoholic option of sparkling water with hops, this cheaper cell service provider alternative, these downloadable murder mystery parties, these affordable cashmere tees, these slippers with advanced arch support, this natural deodorant that actually works, this simpler CRM, this customizable protein powder, this marketplace for bridal resales,
Some resources: Zapier’s app page to give you automation inspo, this resource for using AI for content creation, this newsletter of job openings in women’s health, this new online govt process for renewing your passport where you can upload your own photo, this free investing 101 course, this reflection on the process of angel investing, this article on rethinking product roadmaps, this sober community, this tutorial on how to make a custom GPT.
A good read: ‘Gmail will break your heart’ by Caitlin Dewey
‘My phone periodically resurfaces photos from the recentish past. It’s a feature of Google Photos, which I’ve used for five years, and a shameless nostalgia trap. On this day last year, I was making tacos. On this day two years ago, we hiked Glacier. I’ll tap without fail, swiping the years back — disquieting the depths where those pixels settled.
Emails, however, are another story. Google never reminds me of them. Once read or sent, they sink forever into digital muck — all 18 unremembered years of it.
Emails are more intimate than photos, I’d wager. More revelatory. More haphazard. The writer Susan Sontag famously donated the entirety of her email correspondence — some 17,198 messages, in total — to the University of California at Los Angeles, where their secrets made even her biographer uncomfortable. But 17,000 emails is nothing; I have 150,000 unread emails, alone. They’re largely listserv messages and Groupon ads, sure, but I still haul them around a decade later.
In April, Gmail turned 20; the service is two-thirds as old as I am. “We now have a huge accidental archive of our collective past,” wrote the editors at New York, to mark the occasion.’ [read here]
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