Win The Right To Supply The President With Baguettes

The most popular link last time was this piece about packing for a 25-city book tour, with this look at Dua Lipa's dream job second.

1. If you're a productive procrastinator like me, you might need this: Things That Aren't Doing the Thing.
2. Pictures of Glenn Gould at the piano in 1956.
3. I love a very specific Wikipedia page, such as this one for the "Concours de la meilleure baguette de Paris". If you win this contest, you get a medal, 4,000 euros, and the right to supply the French president with baguettes for the year. And presumably bragging rights over all the other Parisian bakers.
4. I enjoyed this book extract exploring the possibility that the first aliens to reach Earth might not be the super science-y ones.
5. The novelists are fighting (over desks).
6. Smart analysis of the new social media paradigm, where "your content either gets seen by no one or everyone". If you're a company or a person trying to do something tangible with your posts, that's tough. The "middle lane", where at least your followers would see what you were posting, is now gone.
7. Lovely ideas for how to fill a sketchbook.
8. Why don't people return their trolleys (or shopping carts, if you're of that persuasion) after using them? Lots of reasons, most of them bad! It's a fascinating microcosm for studying civic behaviour.
9. I felt extremely targeted (in a good way, ultimately) by this piece about "selective agency in capable people": Maybe you’re not Actually Trying.
10. Why Is Everyone’s Robot Folding Clothes? Because we've only just started to be able to make robots that can fold clothes, it looks impressive, and it conceals the things that robots still aren't good at.
11. The future of publishing isn't AI, it's small presses.
12. We have emoji because of a physics joke gone wrong.
13. I have been known to snark a bit about romantasy. It's not for me! But I also like to read decent criticism about it, and this is a great example of that.