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Notes and links - May 31st 2026

Russell Davies

Russell Davies

31 May 2026 — 1 min read
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Notes and links - May 31st 2026
Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: Posh Grandpa is fashion’s new main character
The latest character dressing trend may be a little silly but there’s an off-kilter pleasure in its mellow, vintage vibe
The GuardianJess Cartner-Morley

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A black logo in white space. It says St GIGA BS PCM " I'm here" "I'm glad you're there"

Tides of Sound

Fantastic 30 mins from Radio 3 "At the crest of Japan's economic bubble, in the spring of 1991, a radio station unlike any other began broadcasting from satellite into homes across the country. St.GIGA carried no news, no commercials, no DJs. Instead, it offered an unbroken

31 May 2026
A hand holding a label saying 'constraints make you interesting'

Constraints make things interesting

This is a saying stolen and adapted from the splendid Paynter people. I talk about it in the Do Interesting book. And I've been thinking of it because I've been reading Inside The Box by David Epstein. It's about the fact that freedom doesn&

31 May 2026
A kitchen counter with a frying pan and a radio and the word 'Earlies' superimposed

Plausibly meditative

I've started waking up unaccountably early. 5am most days. Not deliberately, I just wake up. And it's not a bad thing, I enjoy the mornings so I get up. But then I find myself at a loose end. It doesn't feel like reading time,

30 May 2026
A projection of a computer screen with a hand appearing to hold the cursor and the word 'Presenting' superimposed on it

Public speaker

I miss doing presentations. Standing up and presenting stuff to people I don't know. Pre-COVID I did them a lot and I used to really enjoy it. It was an opportunity to think about things, to craft an argument and to see how it landed with real people

29 May 2026
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