What I read today March 8

• The Seductive Confinement of a Weighted Blanket in an Anxious Time, The New Yorker
• Thriving in the Gig Economy, Harvard Business Review
• For Two Months, I Got My News From Print Newspapers. Here’s What I Learned., NY Times
• Dorm Living for Professionals Comes to San Francisco, NY Times
  I basically lived in a dorm in SF with foreign exchange students. Of course, back then, it was a fraction of the price!
• Productivity Is Really About What You Don’t Do, Jocelyn K. Glei
• Filmmaker Leslie Harris Looks Back at Fort Greene Set of ‘Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.’ 25 Years Later, Brownstoner
• Yumna Al-Arashi captures the last generation of Muslim women with facial tattoos, It's Nice That
• “If it’s about farts, draw a butt for god’s sakes”: Mona Chalabi tells us how to illustrate data, It's Nice That
• Elizabeth Friedlander: one of the first women to design a typeface, It's Nice That