This is how to get where you're going much faster. 🚀🛣️ ⏱️
Plus . . . 12 summer reading activities, 2 living legends, and 5 cool travel tips
1. WHY NOT? It’s time to stop the left! 🚦⬅️ 🏙️
The life of a writer offers many perks. A flexible schedule. Opportunities to learn. Modest hygiene requirements.
But the greatest of all is the ability to air one’s pet peeves in public.
Which leads to the latest installment of my Washington Post Why Not? column, which you can read here or by clicking below.
There’s also a terrific 90-second video version of the column in which I drive through the streets of Washington, DC, to make my case.
Discover more about Why Not?":
Read some previous columns.
Contribute your own Why Not?. Readers have already submitted more than 4,000 ideas. Share yours by using this Washington Post link or emailing me directly at whynot@danielpink.com.
2. PINK RECOMMENDS. How to enhance your summer reading . . . become a wild and crazy guy . . . or reinvent yourself at 42. 📚☀️😎
READ: One of my most enduring childhood memories is the summer reading program at my town’s public library. Now the National Book Foundation is recreating this joy . . . for adults. The NBF’s Summer Reading Adventure challenges grownups to complete a cluster of reading activities (from listening to an audiobook to rereading a favorite childhood book) during the summer of 2024. They even have prizes! More info | Printable card to track your progress.
WATCH: Speaking of childhood memories, I’m pretty sure the first album I ever owned was Steve Martin’s Wild and Crazy Guy. No surprise then that I was mesmerized by Apple TV’s new two-part documentary about his life and creative process. One secret to his prodigious output and general contentment: A moment his 30s when “I decided to think of my work as an end in itself rather than happiness as an end.”
LISTEN: If your appetite for living legends isn’t sated by Steve Martin, check out this New York Times podcast interview with Serena Williams (which doubles a preview of her own documentary.) Serena has always demonstrated an exquisite blend of humility and confidence — even more so as a 42-year-old mom reflecting on her legacy and planning her post-tennis life.
3. FINAL THOUGHTS. 5 surprising tips to elevate your trip abroad. 🌍✈️🌟
Going to a new country this summer? This enduringly popular Pinkcast offers 5 unexpected tips for venturing beyond the tourists traps to understand a place more deeply (while still having fun.)
You can watch the 112-second video by clicking the image the below: