There won’t be a podcast

I’m always in favor of a short week, but this past one was another beast. It shows because my morning reading has been very limited, and I’m trying very hard not to fill my brain and my website (and these newsletters) with nothing but doom and gloom. I’ve been reading a lot about Wikipedia, though—and you should too!—and not all of it is gloomy and doomful.

• Wikipedia under attack

  If you read anything this weekend, let it be this.

• The great extinction

  No more gloom after this. Not this week at least.

• I got myself a microphone

  As a kid I was obsessed with recording myself and others. Maybe recording technology is so much part of our lives these days that making an intentional purchase like this feels a bit like a novelty.

• Become a Wikipedian in 30 minutes

  I love a video with a full transcript.

• A city reinvented: Paris is now Greater Paris

  Apart from a few hours in the city during a long layover in 2018, I haven’t properly been to Paris since 2015, and I need to break that spell.

• Delta will add more European destinations from Boston in 2026

  Speaking of future trips.