Alice's mosaic of questions, quirks and insights. Of the world.
An experimental newsletter for the curious.
Welcome to Beyond. A world by me, Alice Teodorescu. UX + Content marketing. Pop cult & media researcher. Work in progress 🌱
Or so my Twitter bio reads.
I’ve decided to do an experiment.
Because I read a lot. I sometimes even publish about what I read. On whichever social media channel is handy at that moment. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, my rusty blog, etc.
Cinematography, anime and manga studies, cultural anthropology, content marketing, entrepreneurship, literary news, history, video essays — you name it!
Many topics interest me. My thoughts and findings are scattered everywhere.
I think you’re starting to get the picture.
So here’s what the experiment is all about: I’m going to write it all in a newsletter. No predefined format. No predefined frequency. I know, it’s not how you usually do this — I would even advise against it.
But, as it’s my crazy personal space, and I seem to have a problem with sticking to a certain “box”, I’m going to approach this differently.
Whatever topic or topics I’ll find myself immersed in for a week or so will become the newsletter: a long-form essay, a list of 3-5 good articles to read, a film recommendation. It might be one or all of the above. And more.
You don’t know what you’re going to get.
Just that I promise it should be worthwhile.
Like this timeless Paul Graham piece on independent and conventional thinking. Which involves hanging out with one type or the other if you want to start understanding your own patterns and make them even more “yours”.
Or this in-depth analysis of what makes an article viral (Animalz, you rock as usual!). And no, it’s not clickbait titles or scandalous info. But it has to do with our negativity bias — our brain is more attracted to negative sounding bits of information and tends to shower them with attention. In comparison with neutral or positive news, for instance.
Or, maybe, this cool PBS channel I discovered this morning, looking deep into life’s evolution on Earth — PBS Eons. You should start with their explanation of what viruses are and when they first appeared. Did you know that they’re considered semi-alive? And it appears that viruses parts can be detected in human DNA because our evolution is more intertwined than we can imagine.
OK. Enough with the rambling.
Let’s get this experiment started, shall we?
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