3 Things Stephanie Arnett is into right now

MIT Technology Review's visuals editor shares the birding app, journaling system, and book series capturing her attention lately. This science fiction book series confronted me with existential questions like "Are we alone in the universe?" In the series, aliens destroy most of Earth, leaving the titular Carl and Princess Donut, his ex-girlfriend's cat, to fight in a bloodthirsty game of survival with rules that are part reality TV and part video game dungeon crawl. I particularly recommend the audiobook, voiced by Jeff Hays, which makes the numerous characters easy to differentiate. For years I've tried to find a perfect system to keep track of all my random notes and weird little rabbit holes of inspiration. None of my paper journals or paid apps have been able to top how customizable and convenient the developer-favorite notetaking app Obsidian is.