The Chicago producer Billy Lemos is known as one of the midwest’s great beatmakers, and his new record, Wonder, promises some inventive work. To prime yourself, check out his single, “Different World,” a bizarro stream-of-consciousness narrated by the singer and producer Danny Dwyer. Or, on second thought, maybe it’s a narrative? The verses about bowling on Mondays and breaking up over an office job feel so disjointed that you assume they’re unrelated, but maybe that’s just how different the world of the song has become. This track is determined in its dissonance, and that’s reason enough for a listen. Do that here.

Now that it’s after labor day, let’s talk about work, I guess? What comes to mind when you think of the words, “work gym?” Perhaps one of those tech offices that has every possible amenity onsite, or maybe just a pile of weights left in a corner as a gesture. Well, in the age of WFH, the work gym is exercise ~for your mind~. Enough of us are totally sucking at working from home (or maybe we sucked already) that we need trainers to teach us how to focus, or so the premise goes. Among our many mind-training options, the BBC reports, are Caveday, which “offers 50-minute sprints, interspersed with inspirational talks and muscle-easing stretches. Focusmate finds users a brainstorming buddy in the same time zone to work alongside them for 50 minutes. Ultraworking offers a rolling schedule of Zoom sessions (work cycles) to enable users to join an online group at any time.” What you’re gathering is that the main value prop of these programs is not any kind of mental gymnastics, but rather supervision, which ensures that you can’t just get up and do the laundry. Correct me if I’m wrong, but that all feels less like a gym than, um, an office.

Unless you enjoy perpetual zoom pomodoro, the office will in some sense endure (Amazon is forging ahead with their pre-Covid expansion plans, for example). So please welcome the exhausting speculation about how companies re-design for the post-pandemic world. Per Wired, here’s the current thinking: Besides the abrupt 180 on open-office utopias where workers encounter each other serendipitously and exchange all those free ideas that lead to innovation (ha), companies are going to assign people spaces and literal lanes for exit and entry, taking the sensors that they used to use to monitor efficiency and using them instead to ensure capacity limits in rooms. They’ll fire human maintenance staff and hire robots; they’ll remove all buttons. Everyone will want a balcony, and no one knows what to do about elevators. That one might take a while to solve; I’d say “don’t hold your breath,” but that might be the only option.

I hear fall is prime time for dandruff, in part because people are S.T.R.E.S.S.E.D. Given our already heightened levels in 2020, I thought you might like to know about Jupiter, a super chill new scalp care line whose co-founder I recently met and enjoyed. As you know, in the past our options have been more or less limited to Head & Shoulders, which leads with man-forward ’90s branding and the smell of chemicals (while we’re dragging, check out their super patriarchal ad from the ’70s calling people with dandruff losers). Jupiter, by contrast, educates users about dandruff’s causes and treatments, and actually makes space for women. Inside the bottle, the product is naturally scented with vanilla, sage, rosemary and bergamot; it’s free of sulfates parabens and phthalates; it’s safe for color-treated and chemically-treated hair; vegan; and cruelty-free and dye-free. And the company gives 5% of profits to mental health causes because what’s inside your head matters, too. All of which is to say, if you’ve had enough flaking, check out Jupiter.