Hi friends, I write to you from the cocooned hibernation of the mildly ill — pounding elderberry gummies beneath my queen-sized sherpa blanket, toggling between TikToks of Gen Z live-streaming their layoffs [horrific!! wish I could unsee!!] and search results for “do fever suppressants prolong colds” [answer: nobody knows!], and drinking enough tea to support an entire British regiment. Some say there’s no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes.

In 2014, I took part in a tournament for the Good Judgment Project. The goal of this project was to figure out whether certain individuals have habits of mind that make them better at predicting future events than others. About once a week, I would go onto their website and be presented with a series of questions about potential future events. I’d assign a probability to each event, but could skip as many questions as I wanted if I felt like I couldn’t offer a reasonable prediction.

Hi friends, Amazon released the trailer for “Three Pines,” it’s eight-episode adaptation of Louise Penny’s books, last week. What did you think? Are you planning on watching? Let us know! Leave a comment This week’s essay is from Aya Martin-Seaver, the co-editor of this project and writer of Can You Stand Her?, a newsletter about Anthony Trollope’s 1856 novel Can You Forgive Her. “To discover that one has been lied to in a personal relationship, however, leads one to feel a little crazy.

Since I started Slowpoke I have been thinking about ways to incorporate other voices - specifically those of artists - into my newsletters. What I have come up with is what you are looking at today. As always, I want to present recommendations for music to check out, but this new idea involves going a bit deeper and finding out more about the person making the recommendations. For my first foray into this format, I have chosen Ethan Lee McCarthy to help me highlight some new music - alongside baring his soul.

Hi! How was your week? Mine was slam-packed, but with a lot of fun, happy things. I got my paws on the book for the first time!!!! I’m re-watching Bridgerton in anticipation of Season 3 and man, a romantic period piece with Taylor Swift string quartet covers is really a balm to the soul at the end of a busy work + mom day. I also started ’s newest book,Funny Story, this week, so all around just a great week of media consumption on my end.