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.
Every Monday, we 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 to get your week started on the right foot. Be sure to check in each week for a new crop of freshly sprouted words curated straight from the source of your favorite homegrown ‘Smack.
What We’re Reading This Week:
Six Ways to Stop the Internet from Ruining Your Day
The web is full of distractions that make it hard to concentrate on the job. This Georgetown computer science professor thinks he can help.
Tesla Engineered the Perfect Demand Curve
Breaking down the boldest bets in business.
Burning Man Meets REI
Outpost wants to disrupt the outdoor gear trade show business. Our writer descended on its California festival last fall to check out the felt hat–wearing, Bulleit bourbon–sipping crowd and to find out whether the buzzy experience is anything more than an Instagram-ready fad.
This New Generation of Weapons Could Mean More Covert Airstrikes Around the World
These tubes can, according to manufacturers’ websites, be fitted onto much of the Defense Department’s fleet of previously unarmed surveillance planes to enable covert attacks — and thus potentially vastly increase the number of aircraft capable of carrying out airstrikes, allowing the American military to discreetly move converted gunships around the world.
Google’s New AI Head Is So Smart He Doesn’t Need AI
Jeff Dean, who joined Google in 1999 when the company was a startup, is now head of Google’s artificial-intelligence efforts.
A Sustainable Cabin You Can Build Yourself for $20,000
What started as an experiment will soon be available for DIYers everywhere.
