2020
Finding Our Way is a new podcast on design leadership with Jesse James Garrett and Peter Merholz
[What a beautiful map of California] (https://mobile.twitter.com/geo_spatialist/status/1251671066164056065) including clouds drifting off the coast
One Way to Potentially Track Covid-19? Sewage Surveillance sounds promising
The Sidewalk Weekly podcast is an interesting and light look at urban tech news
Roam is a super nerdy (I mean that in the best possible way) note taking tool that allows multiple ways to interconnect your thoughts
Week 15.20 - media diet, tiny offices, sea creatures, and more
4/10/20
↑ Current mood, photo by Patrick Joust
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I just finished The Winter People, a creepy book that toggles between two families, one in 1908 and one in modern times, living in the same haunted/cursed farm house.
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I just started Terriers on Hulu. It’s like a less psychedelic Big Lebowski meets 80s/90s detective show.
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These little animated excercising stick figures are awesome, bonus points for an excercise regime you can do in a “postage-stamp flat”
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I wonder if I could get a bunch of these mini-offices, one for each family member
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The humble text field gets some design love
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Whereby, a Zoom alternative
“These days do feel long, but the year will be short.” - Emmet Connolly
MapLab: A Shrinking Mental Map
“Under quarantine, the map of my world has shrunk in distance, but if I try hard enough, maybe it doesn’t have to shrink in detail.”
An interesting nugget from Advice from Ten Years of Leading Remote Teams:
Nails, foggy nights, wave forms, and more
4/2/20
Just doing my part to prevent doomscrolling with these short videos and pretty pictures:
Nightime in Pittsburgh // wave forms from a drawing machine // one foggy night // shaking nails, stick with it // tracing murmations
The 404 page for the Information Architecture Conference is fun:
Trains in Motion is a series of photos by Aaron Durand. /via Present & Correct
Still Hiring lists companies with open positions for those job hunting in these tough times. Looks like everything from grocery stores to marketing agencies are listed.
Some things for your eyeballs 👀
3/31/20
Peel Tridents are tiny little cars from the 60s // a map showing river basins in Florida // photos of the remote town of Norilsk in Siberia // tiny 3D scenes from pop culture // MD Eight is a font that seems to go with clackity keyboards + beeps and boops // commuting now
The Short Story Club is like a book club, but for short stories. RSVP, read a short story, and join a live discussion with the author on Zoom. First up, a story from Cory Doctrow. Plus proceeds go towards getting masks to healthcare workers. In.
U.S. Digital Response is looking for volunteers to help State and Local governments with technical support for their COVID-19 response. Types of skills sought include: UX research/design, content strategy, front-end engineering and more.
Abandoned is a calm (to me) documentary series that “… explores abandoned places with the people who love them long after the lights have gone out.”
“The photographs of Joshua Dudley Greer are like small novellas that contain pathos, humor, and unfinished stories.”