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Hey everyone, After my first ever break since I started sending this Sunday Night Review email, we’re back. This also happens to be the 150th of these that I’ve sent 🥳 52 more emails incoming this year. For this first one, I’m writing about something that I hope might change this year for you more than almost anything else I could write about. But first, I need to tell you about my addiction.

Hi friends, You may have heard about the Barbie movie. I went to see it, and now I communicate entirely in Barbie memes. I would apologise for this, but Barbie would never. As Lawyer Barbie says: “I have no difficulty holding logic and feeling at the same time. And it does not diminish my powers, it expands them.” ✨ ncG1vNJzZmiemZy1tbXNoKuapJtjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89oqqGdo2Kyt7HRsquhoZ6ceqmx0mahrqukYsGpsYymmKWd

The following post contains Barbie spoilers, so if you haven’t watched it yet you might want to read this after you do. I also want to thank all of you who upgraded your free subscriptions to paid this week. It meant a lot to me to read your messages these last few days. Your support makes such a difference in my life and in my work. Thank you all very much.

👋🏼 Hiya! So recently, I visited Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, USA. There, I got to visit the famous Randy Pausch Bridge. That name ringed a bell, and I got to experience an overwhelming emotion, cause Professor Pausch’s book The Last Lecture was one of the most life changing books I have ever read!! 📚 This book is based on the true story of a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University who was diagnosed with terminal cancer and gave his last lecture on achieving your childhood dreams.

Years ago there was a Final Jeopardy clue that caused such a wrinkle in my brain that I still can’t forget it. The category was World Cities and the clue was “Though not located in Europe, this city served as the capital of a European country in the early 1800s.” The question stumped me at first. I knew it had to be in a colonial outpost of a big empire, and the 19th Century clued me in that it had to be either during the Napoleonic Wars or the 1848 revolutions.

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Hi there, welcome to Engineering Our Social Vehicles. I’m your host, Paul Logan. Today is Alliterative Theme Day of the Week. If you’re new to the newsletter, that means that on this day of the week, we have a theme that is alliterative with today’s name! Without further ado, let’s talk about Thematic Topic. This is a semi-related quote from an famous source. Maybe It is Poetry. It looks nice at the beginning of the article, and likely won’t be addressed.

Hello! One week off and I missed you TERRIBLY. This newsletter gives me life. Thank you to all of you who continue to read it. Now, let’s get right into it and talk about potatoes. No time for niceties today, I owe you some strong, vulnerable food content. I posted a video today where the potatoes were decidedly, honestly, underdone, and I feel like this is the safest space to admit it.