Welcome back trailblazers! I’m Simi Shah, and every other week, I dive deep into the journey of a trailblazing South Asian leader. Remember to find us on Instagram, LinkedIn, Apple, and Spotify! To kick off Season 5 🥳, I catch up with Kal Penn, Actor, Author, and former White House Staffer. Listen Now Kal jumpstarted his acting career in the early 2000s with performances in The Namesake and Harold & Kumar franchise.

Hello! Welcome to the 48th edition of Ceramics Now Weekly. This is Vasi Hirdo, the founding editor of Ceramics Now. I hope you are doing well today 👋 Before we begin, I have an update: we passed our goal! So far, 61 subscribers have chosen to become paid members of Ceramics Now Weekly this month. I want to give the biggest thank you to all those who subscribed! Let’s see what's new.

The shop: Passageway Books Chelsea, Manhattan: 150 9th Ave Books are passageways to lands real and imagined, to the rich internal lives of writers and their characters. All that said, I think this bookstore’s name refers to the narrowness of the store itself! Passageway books doesn’t have a massive selection on display, but each book is interesting and cool. The prices vary, but there’s plenty of stuff in the affordable $10-15 range for my fellow cheapos.

I don’t want to come into this as trying to replace a classic game like Clue, but I do think there’s a lot to love about other games, and I’d love to show you around a little bit. What’s Clue all about, anyway? It’s a few things, for me. It’s a game that forces you to use deductive reasoning, but it’s also a game about moving around a map, and it’s also a game about solving a mystery.

Hello! My name is Ben Sprague and each week I write this weekly newsletter on topics related to real estate and the economy. Subscribe below (if you have not already) to get my articles in your inbox each Sunday morning. Thanks for being here. Last week, I wrote about the challenges faced by homebuyers in the current housing market, calling them unprecedented. Whenever I use language like that, I get a smattering of good-natured grumbling from readers who were first-time homebuyers in the late 1970s and early 1980s who like to point out that interest rates were much higher back then, which is true.