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Welcome to this installment of Pixel Perfect Picks. Here I'm sharing something that I heard, read, and saw. You can subscribe to this newsletter here. I'm additionally publishing a more extended essay about software development, design, and freelancing every month.

I spent part of last week sick on the sofa, which turned out to be the perfect setup for two things: the Rafa documentary on Netflix and the second week of Roland Garros. The Nadal doc is everything you'd want it to be. It doesn't just cover the career, it gets into the person, the obsession, the way he approaches competition. Completely worth your time even if you're not a tennis fan. And then yesterday's final between Zverev and Cobolli was a five-set nailbiter that ended with Zverev finally getting his first Grand Slam title. So well deserved after so many near misses. The highlights are on YouTube if you missed it. You'll find me on court for most of the summer.

This one has nothing to do with AI or tools or the future of work. It's a short piece about the family computer desk, and specifically the kind of bounded, shared relationship with the internet that came with it. A fixed spot in the house, limited hours, the whole family negotiating around one machine. The argument is that something genuinely valuable got lost when technology became mobile and always-on. The Utopia of the Family Computer. I read it twice.

I almost forgot about Drake after everything that happened at the Super Bowl. But then he dropped three albums at once on May 15 and I've been making my way through all of them. Iceman, Habibti and Maid of Honour, 43 songs total, all out simultaneously. It's a lot. But some of it genuinely sounds like old Drake again, the melodic stuff, the vulnerability, the hooks that just stick. If you've been sleeping on him since the Kendrick situation, it might be worth giving at least Iceman a proper listen.

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