Mondays might not be your favorite day of the week, but the good news is that we’re all in this together ladies and gentlemen. As purveyors of prime Grade A web content, the SolidSmack crew has done some of the heavy-lifting to make sure you get your Mondays started on the right track.

Welcome to The Monday List.

Each Monday, we’ll link you up with some of the most insightful, informative, and socially-relevant stories to keep tabbed, bookmarked, reading listed, pocketed, or what have you. Be sure to check in each Monday morning for a new crop of freshly sprouted words curated straight from the source of your favorite homegrown ‘Smack.

What We’re Reading This Week:

One Year Ago, I Rebooted My Life. Is It Working?
ust about one year ago, I took an honest look at myself and I didn’t like what I saw.

Ways I Use Your Data
To sell you things and also to make sure that you’re not a terrorist.

You Too Can Become a Machine Learning Rock Star
If you are a strong-armed NFL quarterback who reads defenses like genre fiction, a movie star whose name alone can open a film in China, or a stock picker who beats Buffet every time, congratulations: you are almost as valuable as a data scientist or machine learning engineer with a PhD from Stanford, MIT, or Carnegie Mellon.

Architects’ Long, Love/Hate Relationship With The Mall
A new book from Hatzje Cantz traces the history of malls through the architects who build them.

2 van Gogh Paintings Stolen From Amsterdam Are Recovered in Italy
“The paintings have been found!” Axel Rüger, director of the Van Gogh Museum, said in a statement released on Friday. “That I would be able to ever pronounce these words is something I had no longer dared to hope for.”

How and Why to Improve Your Cursive Penmanship
With schools spending less and less time on cursive handwriting (and sometimes doing away with penmanship lessons altogether), and our increased reliance on keyboards to communicate, it’s understandable that most people aren’t getting much practice writing things out by hand.