Our Weekend Reads #04
Welcome to the latest edition of our Weekend Reads series.
Every week, we will publish a few articles that made it among our Top Stories. Like you, we are voracious readers, craving that extra bit of thought-provoking twist and careful use of words that make a great story. This is what we hope to pick for our readers every week. If you like what you see, you can sign up for a free trial of Murmel, and receive personalized daily picks in your inbox.
Here are the stories we picked for you this week:
This Is What Happens When There Are Too Many Meetings
Why a 9-to-10 is the new 9-to-5
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Keeping Time Into The Great Beyond | NOEMA
The 10,000-year clock is neither a ‘frightening’ ‘distraction,’ as its critics scorn, nor the ‘admirable objective’ its fans claim. It’s something else — a monument to long-term thinking that can unlock a deeper and more thoughtful spirit of interpretive patience.
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Windows 3.1 Turns 30: Here’s How It Made Windows Essential
30 years ago—on April 6, 1992—Microsoft released Windows 3.1, which brought the company to a new level of success, kept the PC platform competitive with Macs, and set the stage for Windows PC domination. Here’s what was special about it.
![](https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/win31_hero_12.jpg?height=200p&trim=2,2,2,2)
The Beatle Who Got Away
Revisiting Stuart Sutcliffe’s role in the band’s breakthrough.
![](https://media.newyorker.com/photos/623e3cd3ca18e8e3823b0c2a/16:9/w_1280,c_limit/Widmer-Sutcliffe-Astrid-Kirchherr-Stuart.jpg)
The future of literature is video games
Or is it the other way around?
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Agile and the Long Crisis of Software
What is Agile? And where does it come from?
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Bonus
If you have reached this far, here are a couple of older, but just as interesting picks:
When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream
Eavesdropping flourished after WW II, aided by legal loopholes, clever hacks, and “private ears”
![](https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/a-man-wearing-headphones-aims-a-flashlight-at-some-telephone-wires-in-a-dark-basement-room.jpg?id=29594155&width=1200&coordinates=0%2C87%2C0%2C506&height=600)
If The Desert Was Green | NOEMA
Mass tree-planting programs in the desert often cause lasting damage to the ecosystems they are purportedly trying to repair.
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