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A new week is upon us and so is Discontent’s first newsletter of the week.
If you missed the Friday edition, you can catch it here.
Reading📚
Podcast house of hell - Based out of China, Ximalya is possibly the biggest podcasting studio in the world. This is the story of their expansion into the Western market. It includes alcohol, drugs, and burning through millions of VC money. Read the story here.
25 Most Influential Movie Scenes of the past 25 years - Last couple of decades have seen American cinema take some giant leaps. Check out some of its best moments. Read the story here.
Summer of Love - The world is opening up. A year and a few months of staying indoors and finally, people are being allowed to step out. To meet friends, to hang around, to forget about about what they went through. This is a beautiful story of how the youth of New York are looking forward to the Summer. Us desis deserve something similar but that is not going to happen, which just sucks. Read the story here.
The Anxiety of Influencers - According to a poll released in 2019, some 54 percent of Americans between the ages of thirteen and thirty-eight would, if given the chance, become a social-media influencer. A whopping 12 percent believed that this term already fit them. Read the story here.
Short story of the week - The July War by Rabih Alameddine
PODCASTS🎧
Confronting a panic attack
You are about to get on a recording. The host asks you a basic introductory question. It is a question that has been asked and one that you have answered many times over. This time around though, while answering the question, you develop this sinking feeling. Knees weak, arms are heavy. Before you know it, you are having a full blown panic attack.
This is what happened to Every’s Dan Shipper. In his’s episode Dan sits down with this co-host and colleague Nathaniel to break down Dan’s panic attack in a recent interview.
In an effort to make peace with something that was deeply troubling at the time it happened, Dan has a lot of questions to answer for himself—and luckily, Nathan is there to ask them.
Quiz Time India
The latest episode of Quiz Time India came out and it features trivia about a famous authors’ least favourite love letter, a dead body found in Paris, and Shahjahan’s dietary conundrums. The guest is Rajat Gururaj.
Internet Full Power🖥
Get rich or die writing
JayZ loves his mythical beasts
An bizzare take on Edward Hopper. Me likey.
An important question
Not sure if you needed to see this
If you stand for nothing Burr, what will you fall for?
Parkour has a use
As someone pointed out, may be one of our ancestors saw this and conjured up dragons.
The Best for the last
All typos were on purpose!
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