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# This Week - Apr 17, 2015
- URL: https://www.drewshannon.net/this-week-2015-04-17/
- Published: 2015-04-17T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-14T03:10:03.000Z
- Author: Drew Shannon
- Tags: link, apple, basecamp, cara nicoletti, david brooks, emma-kate symons, jason fried, qz, saveur, signal v. noise, the new york times, this week, tim cook, timothy b. lee, vox, #import-blog-backlog-2026-09-13

> Every scroll through Instagram puts someone’s good day in front of me.  
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> — [Look and Feel and Feel (Jason Fried for Signals vs. Noise)](https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3868-look-and-feel-and-feel?ref=drewshannon.net)

> In the eleven years since I’ve tried to recreate that dinner many times, but the results have never held the same magic as that night, when I was young and homesick and full of cream sauce and New York felt, for the first time, like maybe it was my home.  
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> — [Alone with a Bowl of Gnocchi (Cara Nicoletti for Saveur)](http://www.saveur.com/article/blog/alone-with-a-bowl-of-gnocchi?ref=drewshannon.net)

> There is more at stake here than a management push to defend a friend and former boss whose reputation has been supposedly posthumously sullied. Conscious of the pressure that the gigantic Apple bubble could burst one day, Cook is a man on a crusade. The aim is to remake the image of the tech behemoth, marketing-style, by ramping up the well-known Apple penchant to portray its enterprise as a a divine mission. In the post-apocryphal holy book Cook is the freshly anointed charismatic leader pitching for converts to his new covenant Apple Watch wearable device like Cupertino Christ Superstar, accompanied by the Renaissance Madonna-like supermodel Christy Turlington.  
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> — [The canonization of St. Steve of Cupertino (Emma-Kate Symons for QZ)](http://qz.com/369161/the-canonization-of-st-steve-of-cupertino/?ref=drewshannon.net)

> The button began its life as an April Fools’ joke, but 10 days later the community surrounding the Reddit social experiment is still going strong. On Friday morning, the community reached a new milestone, as users started earning coveted yellow flair.  
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> — [The button: the fascinating social experiment driving Reddit crazy (Timothy B. Lee for Vox)](http://www.vox.com/2015/4/10/8383165/reddit-button-explained?ref=drewshannon.net)

> It occurred to me that there were two sets of virtues, the résumé virtues and the eulogy virtues. The résumé virtues are the skills you bring to the marketplace. The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral — whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love?  
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> — [The Moral Bucket List (David Brooks for The New York Times)](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/opinion/sunday/david-brooks-the-moral-bucket-list.html?ref=drewshannon.net)