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Hi,
Happy Friday! Here’s a list of 10 neat things.
1.
Architecture: Why all American diners look like that - the design evolution of American diners from the 1920s through to the 1960s.
2.
Entertainment: Graham Norton reveals the secret to getting embarrassing stories out of celebrities - it’s competition ha.
3.
Music: An interpretation of Nick Drake’s Pink Moon lyrics:
“The pink moon is, according to farmers, the April moon, the moon of renewal. suggesting reincarnation. Note that the song repeats, but has an interlude part with the piano after the first half. You begin living and knowing that death is going to catch up with you no matter what. Then you realize and accept death (the pink pink pink part) and the piano is your time in between lives and then birth. And you realize that everything is really the same in the end.
I think :)”
4.
Culture: Upper-class British accents. Ha one of the comments - “my phone just got colonized”.
5.
Tech: See what’s in Ali Abdaal’s tech backpack for travel - he is not traveling light.
6.
AI: How to connect Google Drive to ChatGPT for AI-assisted file management - neat.
7.
UX: How Video Games Inspire Great UX -
The six lenses: The first three lenses are about breaking down your game (or App) into much more concrete chunks:
Story vs Narrative (Think in terms of story arcs)
Games are fractal (Break up the journey from big to small to tiny)
Learning loop (figure out your core mechanic)
And then the following three lenses build things back up:
Affordances (Prompt for known loops)
Hintiness (Move to new loops)
Pacing (Be sure to start here)
8.
Cute: So sweet.
9.
Nature: The Legacy of Luna - interesting. Haven’t read it yet.
10.
Recommend: I’ve been using Nioxin shampoo for thin hair for about a year and I like it - my hair is poofier :)