The Sunday Digest 006
Pasta, sleep habits, and Porsches in winter. Ahhhh.
Welcome to The Sunday Digest — a free Sunday newsletter featuring long (and some short) reads, original columns, things I’ve saved over the last week, relaxing playlists, episodes releases, exclusive product drops, and more. Yes, you can reply to this email. I’d love to hear from you. Or, if podcasts are more your speed on Sundays, we’ve got that too.
New Episode: Meditation Tips, Career Change Hesitations, Pasta Talk, and More Listener Questions
This month's listener questions include meditation tips for beginners, approaching your significant other about a career change, the world of incense, ranking pasta shapes, whether or not cacio e pepe is overrated, my “Ego-at-the-end-of-Ratatouille” moment, hungover coffee orders, Wordle and other word games, the ideal Sunday sandwich, and a rapid-fire round ranging from Sunday Scaries totes to group dinner apps to reusing old candle containers.
Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else podcasts are found.
Things I Saved This Week
The Sunday Haiku
Advil Liquigels,
Gatorade from down the street,
Nap all afternoon.
Sunday Read: Can Medieval Sleeping Habits Fix America’s Insomnia?
by Derek Thompson for The Atlantic
If there’s one thing that can turn an enjoyable Sunday into a brutal Monday, it’s a bad night of sleep. While I’ve never considered myself to be an insomniac of any sort, I’ve definitely had enough “wake-up-at-3-am” nights that I’ve tried about every sleep aid in the books.
What I haven’t tried, however, is anything medieval.
At 3 a.m. i’m jolted awake. The room is dark and still. I grab my phone and scan sports scores and Twitter. Still awake. A faceless physician whispers in my mind: To overcome middle-of-the-night insomnia, experts say you ought to get out of bed … I get out of bed. I pour a glass of water and drink it. I go back to bed. Still awake. Perhaps you know the feeling. Like millions of Americans and hundreds of millions of people around the world, I suffer from so-called mid-sleep awakenings that can keep me up for hours.
Read in full here.
Watch of the Week: Porsche in Winter Coffee Run
See you next week.
— Will