Medium’s Weekend Reads

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What is it about turning thirty? For Jason Farago, it was about the little changes — the end of youth, his “whole life” hitting “the cold brick wall” of his birthday — until it happened, and he felt just the same. A guide to keeping calm.

Digital Start-Ups Face Unexpected Gauntlet of Door-to-Door Sales
by @rachelswaby

Idea: To pay for groceries, sign into the gym, and get carded, just swipe your finger. Sounds great, but selling is still hard even when the product’s good, reports Rachel Swaby after pounding the SF pavement with PayTango’s two young founders.

It’s Complicated: Me and James Joyce in the Age of Facebook
by @juliangough

This year, Father’s Day and Bloomsday (the James Joyce celebration) fell on the same date — perhaps not a coincidence, considering Julian Gough’s jubilant essay on just how devoted the Irish are, and we all should be, to the father of literary modernism.

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People & Gadgets

Richard Baguley, who’s written for PC World and Gizmodo, curates a forum on Medium for people, gadgets, and the difficult relationships between them. Study up on Nokia nostalgia, Google Glass euphoria, and the miniaturization of professional photography. And don’t forget to contribute your own stories about the gadgets you love or — love to hate.