Every year-long trip around the sun, another 10 internet years goes by. Here are my annual picks for “Best things I’ve seen on the internet in 2019.’
- The refreshed introduction to the long-awaited Final Fantasty VII Remake, what was considered “quite possibly, the greatest game ever made.’ You’re about to see a game break all sorts of sales records in 2020.
- The “Whatever it Takes” official trailer for Avengers: Endgame. This was also the title reveal of the movie.
- Nicholas Thomson’s heart-pumping read about fifteen months of organizational collapse at Facebook, and while still profitable has entered the digital dark ages.
- Jenny O’Dell’s piece on why we need to learn to do nothing. In an attention economy that outrages, splices up, and over-complicates topics to generate clicks, we could do more of this. I learned to start doing that this summer, and it’s made me a better inner person.
- Eric Roston’s Bloomberg article on what will be the massive cost of climate change by 2030.
- Zion Williamson throws down an in-game, 360-degree windmill dunk on January 5th, 2019. #Witness
- This reddit comment on advice for high school students looking for better study habits. Can and should be applied beyond teenagers and beyond high school.
- This article raising awareness about the critical threat to Venice, Italy from over-tourism, and the greed driving its demise.
- The Productivity subreddit’s list of foods you can eat to help get more done.
- The final trailer for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
- This list of free software that’s so good you can’t believe it’s free.
- This tweet mocking the AGILE trend in management, and showing we have a lot of work to do.
- Eddie Murphy’s immediately legendary SNL Monologue.
- The Economist’s interview of David Graeber, the author of Bullshit Jobs and anthropologist at the London School of Economics, makes a good case for why the “best” jobs are populated in cities and the disconnect between management consultants and their core output: productivity.
- This impression of Tracy Morgan done by Alec Baldwin on Conan in 2011.
- The New York Times’ longform piece on the Mr. Rogers No One Saw.
- GQ’s account of the War on Sneaker Bots, the algorithms and programs written to drive up the cost of sneakers by resellers of the sneaker world.
- John Oliver destroying SantaCon and mocking the people that still attend in 2019.
- Ken Klippenstein fooled a white supremacist and acting Iowa Congressman into honoring the service of Colonal William Jessup, a fictional character created by Aaron Sorkin.
- This Spotify Playlist of songs the most redditors upvoted as “perfect.”
- Ronan Farrow’s heart-pounding book excerpt in Variety on how a former Mossad agent hired by Harvey Weinstein was hired to track and stop his reporting.
- This tweet teasing the most detailed reporting done by Fox News in about twenty-five years.
- This space exploration Simulator.
- The funniest tweet of 2019.
- Jimmy Kimmel contrasts two big American moments from the past and present.
Enjoy an unproductive January 1st before getting back to it the next day. Have an amazing 2020, y’all.