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I’m Loving: Calm
On Cyber Monday, I received a barrage of emails trying to convince me (quite the price sensitive – a euphemism for fru- … cheap – consumer ) to pull out my credit card and ‘treat myself’. The only purchase I made on that day was a year-long subscription to Calm. At the beautiful price-point of $30 for 12…
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399 Days of Monochrome
399 days ago, I decided to dive in and use my phone in monochrome (everything is a shade from white to black). The general idea is that lovely UX designers spend hours and hours of time trying to optimize the aesthetics of their operating system, application, etc. ( let alone advertisers and other content creators).…
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Why I Work
I have been working through Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans. In one of the activities, they ask you to describe your workview – why you work – referring to all of your labors, not just what you do for money. I work: Out of…
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Quote On My Mind 12/8/18
Being imaginative and dreaming is absolutely important. Don’t let anybody tell you otherwise and don’t let considerations of ‘the practical’ mute or dull your ability to dream. Paul J. Burgett
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Via Negativa and the Copenhagen Consensus Center
“The Copenhagen Consensus Center is a think tank that researches the smartest solutions for the world’s biggest problems, advising policy-makers and philanthropists how to spend their money most effectively.” This institution has attempted to rank-order interventions that philanthropic humanists should engage in to maximize their return, articulated in $USD return-on-investment per $USD spent. I will…
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Top to-read 11/10/2018
How To Read A Book by Mortimer J. Adler Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett Poke The Box by Seth Godin The Age of Cryptocurrency by Paul Vigna High Output Management by Andy Grove The Truth Machine by Paul Vigna Creativity Rules by Tina Seelig Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu The Rise of Superman…