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Here are 5 things I was looking at and loving this week:

This story from the NYTimes brings new meaning to first-person POV. “We wanted to show this cycle. So we strapped a camera to the head of Kirk Semple, an Opinion Video producer, and sent him through the system, all the while calculating the costs he would theoretically accumulate along the way. You might be surprised by just how high that debt grew. The resulting video is a rare look inside the prison debt machine — at how expensive it is to be incarcerated and how predatory administrative fees are forcing many former prisoners into desperate situations, which isn’t making society any safer. Grab Your Calculators. We’re Going to Jail.”

Ann Patchett chronicles her love/hate relationship with e-mail. Preach, girl.

I love Austin Kleon’s 3 tips for A Good Day at the Museum. Esp. #1. Borrow a kid.

Thanks to Meredith Edlow’s contribution to the most recent NPPA newsletter (a terrific resource!), I got to hear Ken Burns talking about The Ken Burns Effect.

Reporter Brian Reed (remember S-Town?!) has a new podcast called Question Everything looking at whether journalism is failing to reach people and, if so, what we as journalists should be doing differently.