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# What I Read / Watched for the Week of 09-22-2017
- URL: https://chrisenns.com/2017/09/what-i-read-watched-for-the-week-of-09-22-2017/
- Published: 2017-09-22T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-04-08T23:52:56.000Z
- Author: Chris Enns
- Tags: Uncategorized, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-04-08 17:47, #ichris

I'm trying out a new thing for the next month or so where I'll post a summary of articles I read and YouTube videos I watched over the past week. I haven't decided if I'll post commentary or just links - it'll probably depend from week to week. Here goes:

### What I Read This Week

- [Facebook Figured Out My Family Secrets, And It Won't Tell Me How](https://gizmodo.com/facebook-figured-out-my-family-secrets-and-it-wont-tel-1797696163?ref=chrisenns.com)
- [Hard Lessons in Living Off the Grid](https://longreads.com/2017/08/08/hard-lessons-in-living-off-the-grid/?ref=chrisenns.com)
- [Christians are more than twice as likely to blame a person’s poverty on lack of effort](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/08/03/christians-are-more-than-twice-as-likely-to-blame-a-persons-poverty-on-lack-of-effort/?ref=chrisenns.com)
- [The Exact Gear You Need to Record Videos for Your Online Course - ConvertKit](https://convertkit.com/video-gear-for-online-courses/?ref=chrisenns.com)
- [A Serf on Google's Farm](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-serf-on-googles-farm?ref=chrisenns.com)
- [Three wild speculations from amateur quantitative macrohistory](https://lukemuehlhauser.com/three-wild-speculations-from-amateur-quantitative-macrohistory/?ref=chrisenns.com)
- [The Redemption and Rejection of Michelle Jones](https://www.themarshallproject.org/2017/09/13/from-prison-to-ph-d-the-redemption-and-rejection-of-michelle-jones?ref=chrisenns.com)
- [The Edge on U2's 'Songs of Experience,' Bono's 'Brush With Mortality'](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-edge-on-new-u2-album-bonos-brush-with-mortality-w503246?ref=chrisenns.com)
- [The lesson journalists should take away from Spicer’s rebranding](https://www.cjr.org/covering%5Ftrump/spicer-emmys.php?ref=chrisenns.com)
- [The iPhones 8](https://daringfireball.net/2017/09/the%5Fiphones%5F8?ref=chrisenns.com)

### What I Watched This Week

- [Isle of Dogs Trailer](https://youtu.be/dt%5F%5Fkig8PVU?ref=chrisenns.com)
- [The Swell Season: Gold](https://youtu.be/8X4gLNXhJyA?ref=chrisenns.com)
- [December 33 A Celebration of the Music of U2](https://youtu.be/bB8%5FzRsuRdk?ref=chrisenns.com)
- [U2: You're the Best Thing About Me](https://youtu.be/jG2Qf-DIofk?ref=chrisenns.com)
- [U2: Bullet the Blue Sky](https://youtu.be/QG9U%5F41ZXCU?ref=chrisenns.com)
- [Bono and The Edge Talk Inspiration for U2's Album Songs of Experience](https://youtu.be/DlvFmGsyhtc?ref=chrisenns.com)

For anyone curious about how I'm collecting these: I'm just using a couple of [If This Then That](https://ifttt.com/?ref=chrisenns.com) Applets\[footnote\]formerly called recipes I believe\[/footnote\] to collect any articles I like in [Instapaper](https://www.instapaper.com/?ref=chrisenns.com) and videos I like on [YouTube](https://youtube.com/?ref=chrisenns.com).