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From Mark Zuckerberg to Monica Lewinsky

From Mark Zuckerberg to Monica Lewinsky

YouTube is weird.

May 09, 2025

I spent the whole week playing with agentic AI, which didn’t help me write this newsletter because new nouns is always written without AI except for when the AI is kind of the point.

Sometimes we go deep into important ideas here. This is not one of those times…

⭐️ The Nouns of May 8, 2025 ⭐️

Emile Henry Large Bowl aka “Where did you hide the onions?”

I have two bowls on my counter all the time. A vintage fiestaware serving bowl - that was my grandmother’s - full of fruit, and a wood bowl from target full of a few stray cloves of garlic and some potatoes desperately trying to find some dirt to grow in. This is a much better solution…

www.emilehenryusa.com

Casio CRW001-1 aka “Is that ring a watch? Does it work?”

For their 50th anniversary, Casio made one of their classic watches into a ring. I’m not sure what else to say. It works.

www.casio.com/us/watches/casio/product.CRW-001-1

My favorite kids’ book author has cute new ones we can’t stop reading.

This is your sun. Put it over there. This link is to preorder the box set, but the individual books are out now. High rec for 1-4 year olds.

Jon Klassen

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From Mark Zuckerberg to Monica Lewinsky

Sorry Kevin Bacon. Today, we are drawing an arbitrary series of connections between people on the internet via YouTube for absolutely no reason. Enjoy.

Did you make it to the bottom of his one? Good for you.

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You’re welcome for the diverse smorgasbord of content to watch this weekend.

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