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. Daily Edition • May 5, 2025 SUPPORTED BY Happy Monday! You’re probably used to mainly hearing “Happy Friday,” but we’re switching things up on the advice of writer Bree Groff. The Substack author believes we deserve to love all our days, not just the weekend, so she compiled a list of 20 rules for better days at work. No. 3 on the list: “Say ‘Happy Monday/ Tuesday/ Wednesday/ Thursday’ instead of just Happy Friday. Are you alive? It’s a happy day.” Must Reads The annual Eta Aquarid meteor…Read more
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Sunday Edition • May 4, 2025 SUPPORTED BY Happy Star Wars Day — and May the Fourth be with you! The origins are unclear on exactly when enthusiastic fans turned the famous phrase “May the force be with you” into a pun, and subsequently an unofficial holiday, but it lives on nearly 50 years after the first film premiered. And whether you’ve memorized every movie or have yet to see a single one, it’s a fun way to add a little silliness to your Sunday. San Francisco’s BART has definitely gotten...
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. Daily Edition • May 3, 2025 SUPPORTED BY When was the last time you wrote a letter — not an email or a long-winded text, but a real pen-to-paper correspondence? If you’re anything like us, it’s maybe been awhile, but writer Rachel Syme wants to change that. During the pandemic, she started a letter-exchanging program that now has over 10,000 members, and she published a book on the communication medium in January. Get Syme’s “practical and whimsical advice” for starting a letter-writing...