Everything happens so much

@Horse_ebooks from 2012, still true today.

The secret to making friends as an adult + the three types of loneliness we all face.

→ pushkin.fm

Liked: All Posts · Chris Burnell. What a fun “section landing” page.

Currently reading: Empire Of Wild by Cherie Dimaline 📚

Here’s the way I’ve been thinking about it: there’s a passenger ferry that goes from Cape Cod to Nantucket and there’s a stretch of time in the middle of the journey where you can’t see the mainland behind you and can’t yet see the island ahead — you’re just out in the open water. That’s what I need, to be in that middle part — to forget about what I’ve been doing here for so many years without having to think about where I’m going in the future. I need open water and 5-6 months feels like the right amount of time to find it.

Jason Kottke from I’m Going to Miss You, But I Am Taking a Sabbatical

Liked: Smol Pub is a tiny blogging service.

Liked: The sound of a black hole. Creepy!

Finished reading: Sea of Tranquility: A novel by Emily St. John Mandel 📚 I liked it!

Product discovery process.

Liked: Music to Listen to While Focus. A Reddit thread with loads of recomendations.

Read: I’ve Used All The Notebooks. I like the idea of marginalia in your notebooks.

Liked: The plotter weaves. Kind of mesmerizing.

Liked: creating digital gardens. An Are.na board to get lost in.

A poem written by Maggie Smith:

Read: Design beyond deliverables. Good thoughts about collaborating on/presenting design deliverables and thinking about what you want to get out of those activities.

Listening to: Work Song by Dan Reeder 🎵

Read: Three Types of Notes by Jorge Arango, who is writing a book on the topic.

A world made up of atomized, physically isolated people is a world without a true shared reality

Source: The Forgotten Joy of Hanging Out in ‘Third Places’ - The Atlantic 💬

Currently reading: Sea of Tranquility: A novel by Emily St. John Mandel 📚

Finished reading: Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman 📚

Less, how to manage your tasks, more:

To remember how little you matter, on a cosmic timescale, can feel like putting down a heavy burden that most of us didn’t realize we were carrying in the first place.

I dug it.

Literally fluffy giants. Can’t pet them though. Please fix that.

Source: Bears - Earth Reviews 💬

Liked: Marine Biodiversity by Zoe Keller via Dense Discovery.

Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.

Source: Tom Kerwin quoting Neil Gaiman 💬

Liked: Plain Text Sports.

Liked: Mobile Phone Museum, lots of classics in here.