The University of British Columbia’s student union looks like a cool space.

Looria analyzes Reddit posts and comments to find the most popular products. Kinda related is the second half of this 99% Invisible episode on search.

Marco Cornacchia has a fun personal site.

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.