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Embedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, from Kate Lindsay and Nick Catucci. My boyfriend and I are “in a relationship” on Facebook, due to long term commitment to a bit. —Kate PS: I had a great conversation with Charlie Warzel for his newsletter, Galaxy Brain, about rethinking my relationship with social media. You can read it over here! I still have light trauma from the way Facebook’s “in a relationship with” feature meant my entire social and familial circle found out whenever I went through a breakup.

Business first: I wrote about this fall’s bumper crop of supermodel documentaries for the New York Times Magazine! The big idea on my mind was impermanence, because modeling is a business where careers are short and notions of who is considered “beautiful” and “aspirational” are forever shifting along with the tides of fashion and culture. I hope you’ll read it. The documentaries are also worth your time if you’re so inclined.

Welcome to Developing Skills - Skills for Developers looking to develop their careers. Mastering your soft skills is essential if you want to progress to senior software engineer and beyond. Above senior, you’ll spend a large amount of your time working with and influencing others By developing self-awareness, critical thinking, problem-solving abilities, open-mindedness, time management, adaptability, patience, and communication skills, you become a well-rounded software engineer with a skill-set that extends beyond coding.

With the news that the infamous Colony Room Club is back, though in a different venue, I thought I’d post an updated version of something I wrote a few years ago on Soho drinking clubs. There was also a story a couple of months ago that one of the few still going, Trisha’s aka the Hideout aka the New Evaristo club, was under threat so this is doubly timely. I’ll be recommending some wines on Sunday so it’s going to be a bumper weekend on Drinking Culture.

Guy most definitely isn't tired. In fact, this is the most energetic he's ever been and F9 is the greatest movie ever made. In other news, the fellaz take a guess as to what kind of practical jokes Vin plays on set and Monty is dead set on seeing him have sexual relations with a car. The boiz also ponder on the Fast and Furious books exist and what Dom …

Years ago when my parents would drive from their home in the San Francisco Bay Area to visit us in Los Angeles, they would usually take a short detour off Highway 101 for an overnight stay at a small Danish-style village called Solvang, located about a half-hour north of Santa Barbara. They never talked much about the town they visited. It was just a convenient halfway stop en route to Southern California, something a younger me assumed aging parents did when road fatigue struck.

If you’re building a home cocktail bar, the first bottle you should buy is Rittenhouse Rye. Today, we’re going to discuss the second bottle: sweet vermouth.  Building a cocktail bar is an iterative, branching process. When it comes to classic cocktails, base liquors like whiskey, rum, and gin are typically the stars of the show. But you don’t want to build your collection out of base spirits alone. Every show needs a supporting cast — and when making cocktails, there’s no more important supporting cast member than sweet vermouth.

I was born too late to have seen the Beatles live, but I remember the media coverage of the hordes of screaming girls. I thought the Beatles were great, but I found all the fan hysteria quite ridiculous. As I got older, I read press about people who followed other rock bands around from city to city, sort of how some sports fans follow their favorite teams. I knew one guy who managed to see 37 consecutive Grateful Dead concerts (ok, Deadheads are more than a bit weird).

Share It’s Pride month, and you know what that means: here come the rainbow social media logo makeovers. The trend was popularized in 2015 after the Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide, but don’t expect quite as many of them for Pride 2022. Here’s what I found looking through Twitter profiles for top U.S. companies, brands, and professional sports leagues: Just ten out of the top 50 biggest companies in the U.