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# five friday finds: typefaces, marriage ice age, comments
- URL: https://flyways.snowbird.global/five-friday-finds-typefaces-marriage/
- Published: 2024-02-23T07:30:09.000Z
- Updated: 2024-11-05T05:51:14.000Z
- Description: the answer to all your questions is in YouTube comments
- Author: Gautam Ramdurai
- Tags: Newsletter, #Migrated-1730785798323, #Import 2024-11-05 13:50

Howdy! Gautam here. For all the new folks - welcome to this weekly newsletter where I share interesting things happening at the intersection of tech & culture, usually from an Asian vantage.

I am trying to make art a habit and not just a hobby and here’s what I made this week while waiting for a friend:

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1a/35/1a359af0-1487-4492-8c86-f84968b08aa6/content/images/2024/11/https-3a-2f-2fsubstack-post-media-s3-amazonaws-com-2fpublic-2fimages-2f6e5f3dd5-794d-45d4-998f-afdf510d2340-heic.jpg)

quick sketch of a coffee shop in downtown Singapore

If the first two months of this year have taught me anything, it’s that **every** week of the year will be filled to the brim with *“AI News”*. When something is so novel, it can be hard to separate the signal from the noise. There were will be more frenetic announcements, doomsday predictions, absolute declarations, AI-driven-oopsies and inconsequential debates than we have ever seen before, about any topic. I’m going to take a [delayed gratification](https://www.slow-journalism.com/?ref=flyways.snowbird.global) approach to AI the rest of the year - a way to make sure the signals have enough time to breathe and accumulate. Where I reserve my attention not for new announcements or shiny demos, but for when these things meet the real world and change it in some way. With that, here are (non-AI-hype) the finds for the week:

1. [**COLLABORATIVE CUTENESS**](https://spectrum.ieee.org/disney-robot-2666681104?ref=flyways.snowbird.global)Disney’s latest demos show how two robots can be much more capable than one
2. [**ANESTHETIC INEQUALITY**](https://nautil.us/why-women-wake-up-more-during-surgery-518081/?ref=flyways.snowbird.global) Women wake up more during surgeryNew findings could influence anesthesia dosing for women.
3. [**TYPE TRENDS**](https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/monotype-type-trends-report-2024-news-070224?ref=flyways.snowbird.global) I love any discourse on typefaces - they live in the liminal space between graphic and written culture. Monotype’s type trends report predicts 90s and Y2K grunge, AI-inspired surrealism and a return of serif fonts.
4. [**ICE AGE**](https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Society/Japan-heads-for-marriage-ice-age-with-lowest-number-in-90-years2?ref=flyways.snowbird.global) Japan heads for 'marriage ice age' with lowest number in 90 years.
5. [**COMMENTS & SONGS**](https://thesoundof.love/?ref=flyways.snowbird.global) I strongly believe that all of the world’s wisdom lives in YouTube comments. Someone made a clever portal that pairs love songs and their accompanying YouTube comments. Filled my heart.

Have a great weekend folks. And if you enjoyed any of these finds, please share this newsletter with one more person. Just one! Pretty please. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽