Hi,
Happy Friday! Here’s a list of 20 neat things.
1. Art: “My paintings are about merging, about formlessness ... A world without objects, without interruption.” - Agnes Martin
“You see, I say I paint with my back to the world. Because if you wake up in the morning and you feel very happy, about nothing, no cause, that’s what I paint about, the subtle emotions that we feel without cause in this world.”
2. Literature: “A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song” - Maya Angelou
3. Architecture: Inside Sienna Miller’s secluded country cottage, designed by Gaby Dellal - “It was a time when there was a lot of press attention on me, and I wanted somewhere to escape”
4. Fashion: Bob Dylan's iconic black sunglasses - on my shopping list
5. Film: How Netflix’s Adolescence pulled off one-shot episodes - good interview, explains all the prep and choreography
6. Psychology: Amanda Montell, author of Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism explains the cultish language of the Right and how thought terminating cliches are used to shut down discussions
7. Neuroscience: “Changes to natural images are difficult to detect when they occur during a blank gap, eye-movement, or camera cut. If properly masked, a single item can continually change, without observers noticing.” - Change blindness and the attentional requirements of consciousness
8. UX: When Stakeholders say “We knew that already”: hindsight bias in UX research and what we can do about it - good article by
9. AI: How AI will step off the screen and into the real world - good TED Talk by Daniela Rus on the convergence of AI and robotics, and her vision for "physical intelligence”
10. Tech: “Can music help us understand data?” - neat, but wouldn’t we need to understand music first?
11. Media: Ground News - a platform that makes it easy to compare news sources, read between the lines of media bias and break free from algorithms - good, but requires a subscription
12. Science: Would you die a million times to find out you’re immortal?
13. Productivity: “Your brain is like a battery, everyone has a finite amount of energy… you have one mission to preserve your battery” - how to stay organized when you're busy
14. Nature: Geoponika LA, a “non-profit orphans greenhouse”
15. Education: Kitty Language: An Illustrated Guide to Understanding Your Cat, by Lili Chin
16. Food: When visiting Singapore, know how to order kopi before lining up - Singaporeans can be very grouchy. My go to is Kopi C
17. Lifestyle: How to make suction cups stick stronger - useful
18. Humor: Anti-jokes
Q: What’s the difference between a duck?
A: One leg is both the same
Q: Why is a duck?
A: Cause the higher it flies the much
19. Spirituality: Learn about tasseography and how to read tea leaves
20. Cute: Meet Dumpling, the super clean marmot - “marmot lying still experience like washing a carpet”, “The first time marmot bathed with a brush”. Yay time for a treat - “marmot eats strawberry ice cream for the first time” :)