Today we get two songs, both about mortality, and one more hopeful than the other. Cocorosie’s “Aloha Friday” is sweetly melancholic and sort of fades out on itself, while Sam Lee’s “Lay This Body Down” builds a charge over its course, hinting at some sort of life after its end. Both are worth a listen, maybe at different times. Follow your nose.

You don’t need me to tell you that office space is in a weird spot. Just two months into all this, it’s already laughable that anybody was investing however many millions it costs to lease workspace in the city. While some hold out hope that we’ll one day return to normal, Twitter just announced that anyone currently working from home may do so foreve. While surely that’s a cost-saving move from a struggling giant, other companies are certain to follow suit; Barclays, JP Morgan Chase and Morgan Stanley are already reconsidering their massive footprints. What’s more, vacant towers could make for wholesale economic shifts in places like Manhattan whose side industries (food service, transit) rely on people going to work there. Watch this space, eh?

Offices may be dying, but dying is making for good business. In the time of the virus, death startups are growing very quickly, as I wrote in the Wall Street Journal this week. The gist, in case the paywall stops you: People obviously can’t have memorial services right now, but they also can’t meet with lawyers, cremators, or funeral directors who would help make arrangements around a death. Instead, folks are using startups that let them do all those things online, effectively accelerating the digitization of an industry that’s been stuck in analog mode forever. Don’t be deterred by the sad headline; the users I spoke to glowed about how these companies are helping them process loss in isolation— they say they’ve gained a sense of control and connection at a time when they thought they’d have to go it alone. The internet is good for something after all.

Ok, so if offices are done, that kind of makes The Office a relic of a bygone era, doesn’t it? To bring it up to speed with the present day, MSCHF, the team behind the Boomer Email, has transcribed the ENTIRE SERIES into Slack, and they’re streaming the chat live on weekdays from 9-5. It’s both sad and awesome, and almost certainly better than whatever you’re doing right now. Tune on in hang with Michael and the gang.