Power Nap #32

Funny and thought-provoking media from Kate and her team for a quick, refreshing pick-me-up.

In Case You Missed It

1. Kate shared two tips for cooking quesadillas.

2. Kate was reminded just how little kids need. Give them a puddle and they are exclaiming it's the best day of their life.

3. We moved Abbey Wedgeworth's newsletter feature about cooking with little people over to the blog. Read it here!

4. Kate pulled out her old faithful waffle knit shirt for the Fall.

5. Have a recipe that calls for wine? Kate shared what she buys instead of wasting an entire bottle.

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“It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot

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Things We Found Interesting

Nate reads a handful of email newsletters each week that curate articles and essays to read. It's somewhat rare that the same piece shows up in multiple of these newsletters, but over the last week or two there have been a few articles that he keeps seeing linked over and over again. Here they are:

1. “The Truth About College Costs": What if college costs aren't rising as fast as everyone says. What if colleges are just pricing things in weird ways where the “sticker price” goes up but the discounts are applied liberally (kind of like the retailer that seems to always have a 25% off deal going).

2. “They Studied Dishonesty. Was Their Work a Lie?”: New Yorker article on research into “why we bend the truth." It turns out that some of the researchers may have been “bending the data.” Oh the irony. (I don't think this will be pay-walled; apologies if it is for you.)

3. “The Insider: how Michael Lewis got a Backstage Pass for the Fall of Sam Bankman-Fried": Nate's a big Michael Lewis fan (author of, among others, Moneyball, the Blindside, and The Big Short, which you might have read or seen the movies). Lewis's new book out last week was on Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of failed crypto-currency exchange FTX, who many thought may be the world's first trillionaire, but it looks like was actually running a massive fraud.

Unrelated: Apparently there is a bed bug outbreak in Paris. And seems like there is fear it is spreading to London via the Tube.

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Things We Devoured

Case 63 is a ten episode fiction podcast produced by Spotify. Nate finished Season 2, which just came out, but Season 1 was awesome. The episodes are around 10 mins, so you can get through one on a short drive. The plot involves the relationship between a psychiatrist and her patient, a man who claims to be a time traveler sent from the future to help stop the world from ending.

Jess has made these frosted sugar cookie bars four times in the last month if that tells you how good they are (and easy)! No-risk baking that you cannot mess up. They are just as good without the frosting and if you don't like the almond flavor either, skip the almond extract. They taste like sugar cookies without having to tediously roll the dough into balls.

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