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:

Keep It Moving
People who work out but also sit for long hours — active couch potatoes, you might say — may often share the same elevated risks for disease and early death as their less active peers.

Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About Financial Discipline—Until Now
Alphabet’s CFO Ruth Porat wants to bring focus to Mountain View. Can the moonshot factory adapt?

Google Street View is being used in bad ways
Shitty screenshots are ruining the news.

The Best And Worst Branding Of 2016
We revisit the highs, the lows, the most-Tweeted about. Here are our picks for the best and worst identity design this year.

Augmented Reality, Hologram-like Images Enter the Workplace
Special glasses display diagrams on the factory floor; ‘You’re…experiencing much more than you’re analyzing’

Where Should Machines Go To Learn?
If we want to massively accelerate artificial intelligence and improve human lives, we need to democratize access to data.