5 Reads To Get You Through The Working Week

1. In Improving Ourselves to Death, Alexandra Schwartz discusses "predatory optimism" and the relentless push to upgrade all parts of ourselves. Truth bomb. 

2. Artsy put together a nifty 'visual culture' recap of the 2017 movers and shakers who made an impact on our visual landscape. 

3. I had to re-read this line twice ---- "A Stanford University study showed that over 75% of women “never” or “rarely” experienced support from friends or family when it came to losing weight"  ---- such a 180 from our culture! Check out the full article on friends sabotaging weight loss in Quartzy. 

4. Ah, the allure of the double G. How Gucci does experiential retail.

5. God damn.