February ‘24

The Twelfth Side

Hi! Welcome to the twelfth issue of The Good Side of the Internet! Super glad to have you here. For a brief run-down on what all the hullabaloo is about, please visit the About page for this publication.

This newsletter has been split into two sections. The first is external links that I truly adored, sometimes with my own little endorsements. The second is similar, but within Substack. There once was a third, compiling all the recommended readings on

thodi

over the last month, but I’ve discontinued the mini-TGSotI, so all links can be found in one place, right here.

The ones with the little asterisk next to them come Highly Recommended (by me). Please do heed the trigger warnings if they’re present. For access to paywalled essays, feel free to reach out. I’m always open to discuss/debate/listen to your opinions about any of these links and would probably ascend to a higher plane of joy.

Happy reading!

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TGSotI Reviewed

1. Words on the Brain | Lateral Magazine

   From a young age, most of us are encouraged to read fiction. Researchers are now finding that reading literary works can alter the development of our brains and help us gain a sense of sympathy.

2. Nice View. Shame About All The Tourists. | Noema Magazine*

   How and why did the phenomenon of global tourism become so problematic? And where are we all heading next?

3. Coming of Age at the Dawn of the Social Internet | The New Yorker

   Online platforms allowed me to cultivate a freer version of myself. Then the digital world began to close off.

4. A Death at Walmart | The New Republic

   Janikka Perry never made it home from her shift at the bakery of a supercenter in Arkansas. She was one of many Walmart workers who have been pressured to work through illness or pain, sometimes with devastating consequences.

5. Miracle in the Jungle | The Atavist Magazine*

   The race to find four children who survived a plane crash deep in the Amazon.

6. The Birth of My Daughter, the Death of My Marriage | The New Yorker

   Now that I was doing little besides keeping this tiny creature alive, it was impossible to ignore my desire to wander the streets with our baby, in ever-widening loops away from home.

Bonus: Wings 翅膀

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In-house Links

This section contains links to pieces from different Substack publications. Again, the ones with the asterisk are personal favourites.

1. #34 from

   tiya's love letters
   *

   #34

2. Learning to Receive the Day from

   The Convivial Society
   *

   Learning to Receive the Day

3. Mary Shelley (and a bit of Steve Jobs)—On the Art of Creative Waiting from

   The Pamplet

   Mary Shelley (and a bit of Steve Jobs)—On the Art of Creative Waiting

4. “How do I keep going?” from

   Human Stuff
   * (I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this since I read it. I think I will continue to carry it with me for a long, long while.)

   "How do I keep going?"

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That’s a wrap for February ‘24! Feel free to make me the happiest person alive by reaching out to discuss any of it. For weekly poetry and song recommendations, plus a sometimes-nonsensical-sometimes-profound-sometimes-toopersonal article, we’d be happy to have you over at

thodi

.

If you’d like, please share this with your friends. Or your mother. Or on your Instagram story that you share a Spotify link on once in six months. Or anybody who you think would enjoy it. I am deeply passionate about telling people what to read.

Thanks for reading, and see you next month!

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