Color Copy Paste is a pretty amazing app.

Small Seasons is a nice little website listing nature’s micro seasons. We are currently in the seeds and cereals. “Praying mantises hatch, fireflies come out. Time to seed the soil.” I saw my first fireflies of the summer on my walk last night.

Kicks Condor on blogging “But it’s still worth attempting - like any creative project that might flower into something. That might actually make life worth living.”

One of the Most Striking Photos of the Mount St. Helens Eruption Was Also One of Its Biggest Mysteries wweek.com

In the interest of trying to learn #Figma I started recreating those Lego Computer #UIs that made the rounds recently. If you’d like to have a go at it, here is the link.

From the other side of the bridge interconnected.org

Walkcar is a car you can carry around like a laptop PC.

Collected Notes is another simple blogging platform.

Bear Blog is an extremely lightweight blogging tool.

Passive income for the soul “I now have several forms of passive income: writing, drawing, cooking, exercising, photography. Doing any of these things pays immediate dividends into my mind vault …”

Time for a Walk #walkdaily

Ships from Carnival, Celebrity, and Royal Caribbean now form a strange new archipelago a network of ships “spread out loosely in three groups spanning some 30 miles” west from the Bahamas

Vertical tabs in Firefox

Tab groups in Chrome

Quarantine Goals

A list of good things

A crowd sourced reading list of foundational internet writing /via Laura Olin

↑ 9-eyes.com

• I created a Spotify playlist of mostly instrumental music. Not saying it’s great, but maybe you’ll find something to add to your own “Please Lord, just let me string together an hour of focus time today” playlist.
• Kevin Kelley’s 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice is chocked full of great advice, but I think I like this one the best: “Learn how to take a 20-minute power nap without embarrassment.”
• Times Like These performed by Live Lounge Allstars (and the Foo Fighters) is great.
• Balsamiq Sans, the base font used in the venerable wireframing app of the same name, is now available as a Google Font.
• Some things to love
• An abandoned church
• An indoor garden
• “At its worst and at its best, the internet extracts humanity from users and serves it back to other users.” - Lurking

Jeff Bezos’s wealth gave me carpal tunnel syndrome

I was reading my state’s Covid-19 recovery plan and was curious about the contact tracing part. Specifically, the job of contact tracing, so I looked up the job posting:

Are you a self-motivated, people person looking to make meaningful contributions through work that impacts the nation? NORC is hiring interviewers to serve as Contact Tracers for the Maryland COVID Link initiative. These Contact Tracers will play a key role in the state’s effort to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. This opportunity will allow interviewers to contribute to the fight against the disease while working from home as part of the Contact Tracing Call Team.

I’ve always been interested in how “things” (organizations, tools, industries, processes) work. I suppose that is why I dig my job so much. Curiosity aside, this “thing” may save our collective asses in the coming months.

louie zong

Finding Our Way is a new podcast on design leadership with Jesse James Garrett and Peter Merholz

Paul Ford

Music to listen to while wandering in a dungeon

There is a face house in Japan