“If you’re a jogger, it is no longer enough to cruise around the block; you’re training for the next marathon. If you’re a painter, you are no longer passing a pleasant afternoon, just you, your watercolors and your water lilies; you are trying to land a gallery show or at least garner a respectable social media following. When your identity is linked to your hobby — you’re a yogi, a surfer, a rock climber — you’d better be good at it, or else who are you?” In the NYT, Tim Wu wonders whether fewer of us have hobbies because we’re afraid of being bad at them. (Oddly enough, my hobby is reading news…)

+ Are NBA stars addicted to social media?

+ “Keep robot brothels out of Houston”: a sex doll company faces pushback.

+ Alex Trebek moderated a gubernatorial debate in Pennsylvania. It didn’t go well. (Ironically, most of his questions were presented in the form of answers…)