The Debrief: The list of things to do and read and watch and listen to just grows and grows longer each and every day.
Illustration by Hailey Hamilton
For a while there I had a nice balance. I could juggle the books and TV and films everyone was talking about without breaking a sweat. But then podcasts landed on the scene and the list of things that I was meant to be keeping on top of suddenly seemed almost comically long. But there wasn’t time to laugh about it, instead there was just the crippling sense of guilt and shame when someone in the office would innocently ask: ‘Do you listen to this podcast called Invisibilia?’ and I would make a mental note to add it to the growing list of things that I’ll get around to. Eventually. When I retire. In 40 odd years.
Other things on the list include all the books that were on the…
