202406240801 Weekly update, Week 26

Hi friends,

Welcome to my July 1st dispatch! You can sign for these newsletters or browse the archive at https://buttondown.email/manan.

What I thought about this week

I spent some time this week thinking about physical health and productivity (Being healthy is productive).

Obituary for a Quiet Life. A beautifully written piece celebrating a kind, simple, fierce existence.
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. I'm about 70 pages in. So far, this book has felt like a more irreverent, gory, realistic Hunger Games. I've enjoyed the book's commentary on the prison-industrial complex. Excited to keep reading.

https://www.weeksofyour.life. A cool visual medium to reflect on and share details about your life so far. Reminds me of Four Thousand Weeks.
https://www.plotaroute.com/. Seems like an awesome tool for planning walking routes on trips, or for minimizing walking distance between several locations you want to visit.
The Double Cross Trail. I've walked the SF Crosstown Trail once before with friends, and it was an absolute blast. I loved walking parts of the city I'd never seen before. This seems like a worthy successor!
Fun Reddit r/travel thread about surprisingly overrated or underrated travel destinations. Lots of cool gems in here that I didn't know about! Some highlights:
- Plitvice, Croatia
- Lombok, Indonesia
- (Skopelos, Milos, Paros), Greece
Fun math puzzle! Reply if you're interested in the answer :)