Sunday Times Snapshot
5 things worth noting from today's New York Times
If you don’t follow me on Instagram, you might not know the true depths of my nerdiness. Most Sundays, I annotate my read of the physical The New York Times as an Instastory. What started as just a quirky little project has become strangely fulfilling. People write and tell me that they love it. Some people say that they like to read the paper first and guess what I’m going to comment on. Some people say they use my commentary as a guide to decide what to read or skip. Some people like to argue with me about shit I say, which is wonderful.
To be clear, I have no delusions that the NYT is editorially perfect. I’ve written for them and had both extraordinary and terrible experiences. I often take issue with their framing and/or choice of writers. But I think the paper has a bunch of truly brilliant, beautiful humans that work for them or contribute to their pages, and I’m still in awe of how much I learn every week from them.
So anyway, as an experiment, I’m sending along five snapshots from my NYT read this Sunday. If you’d like them all, you can follow me on Instagram.
And let me know what you think? If my Substack community is into this, maybe I’ll send these along each sleepy Sunday…
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I love this! As a sample size of 1 I would most certainly love to see it on Substack. Government program design (re: hunger, PTO, etc) seems to have this assumption that life is actually great for everyone and that any time you need to borrow from the government its simply a temporary measure to get back to your life being great. Lots of racism and sexism to unpack there. People like me often assume that because my life is so easy, everyone else is doing something wrong if theirs isn't. I am impoverished by my own privilege and do not see the harm that it causes others and just how misguided that mode of thinking is. News letters like this one are continually helping me unlearn this and re-learn to to live better with my neighbors. Thanks, Courtney!
Thanks Courtney. I appreciate your nerdiness! I have it in other area's of my life. I'd love it if you shared on this platform. I am not on instagram and to have someone cull what's worth a read is super helpful. And I am from Bend OR...that is a concerning post about the guns.