Corruptions

📚 Books

A Little Life is my book of so-far-this-year. It was so long and painful that it takes a certain amount of masochism to get through. But I did because it was so beautifully written. I started in January and slowly, slowly followed Jude’s story until he died in April.

I’ve also read:

• The Death of Vivek Oji — ❤️
• Dark Matter & Trojan Horses: A Strategic Design Vocabulary— 💭
• The Architecture of Demas Nwoko — 🤯
• Apartamento #28 —❤️
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less — 👍🏾
• Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time — ✍🏽

  📺 TV

I signed up for Mubi at the beginning of the year to get niche film recommendations and so far I’ve seen 6/127.

• Incident By a Bank — 😅
• Results — ❤️
• Bad Lucky Goat — 😅
• Shiva Baby — 😅
• Bye Bye Africa — ❤️
• Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris — 😲 I also saw a handful of shows/films on Netflix/Apple/HBO/Hulu that I can’t remember except for Central Park and WeCrashed.

🍿Cinema

I’ve been to the cinema twice this year. I saw the new Spiderman in January and then Parallel Mothers later.

Also went to the opera twice — Romeo & Juliet first, then Hamilton after, which was amazing!

📧 Subscriptions

I subscribe to 50+ odd newsletters and a random assortment of personal blogs on Medium and Substack but the ones I’ve enjoyed/learnt from the most so far this year are:

• Napkin Math — the business of technology
• Stears Business — Nigeria in numbers
• Animation Obsessive — in-depth commentary with surprisingly a lot of knowledge about Russian animation
• Colossal — funky art
• A24 — very inspiring for wuruwuru
• Dense Discovery — ethical design and climate change awareness
• Big Tech This Week — I helped edit #27 :D
• Culture Study— completely left-field
• It’s Nice That — cool design essays and interviews
• Collaborative Fund — thoughtful essays on life and work
• Aeon Magazine — philosophy and big ideas
• Typewolf Tuesday — interesting, well-designed ideas
• The — Brand Identity — visual inspiration
• Why is this interesting?— general education
• Afrobeats Intelligence — light into the fog of the music industry
• New_Public — on digital public spaces
• Things dey happen — on life, friends and family
• Osundolire Oladapo Ifelanwa — on life, culture, parenthood
• Cheta Nwanze — on Nigeria
• Anthony Azekwoh — on life, friends and family
• Kachi Eloka —on life and mental models

  That’s it

I’m currently juggling Orbiting the Giant Hairball, Monocle 150, Kinfolk 41 and Things Fall Apart Illustrated.

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