I laugh every time I see this CATS KILL T-Shirt. But I guess it’s only funny if you live in the NYC area and are in the on the joke. (There’s an area upstate of NYC called The Catskills)
Seven Principles for Belonging
The Art of Community by Charles Vogl is the first book to distill principles from 3,000 years of spiritual traditions for leaders to create belonging in any organization, field or movement. It is written to support mission driven leadership.
For Strangers On The Internet
This made me smile. Here’s to keeping it real.
Howly Cat Bed
How beautiful is this cat bed called Howly by Tuft and Paw? Stunning!
Tips for a Creative Life by David Hieatt
David Hieatt, co-founder of The Do Lectures, spoke at their daughter’s Teen Do Conference in 2017. Love his message to this room of teenagers: Stop Caring What Other People Think.
Community Management
“A garden needs both fertilizer and weedkiller. But most of all it needs a gardener. Go back in and participate as much as before. Community manage with a heavy hand. Promote good people, respond to them. Make them shine. Build good admin tools to silence bad actors.”
– Caterina Fake
Perforated Message Boards
I love these simple, perforated message boards. I want to put them all over my apartment.
Done With Big Success
“I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible, loving, human forces that work with individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, which, if given time, will rend the hardest monuments of pride.”
– William James
(via Bailey)
Grating Bucket
This Grating Bucket makes total sense.
Friday Link Pack
Birds of Paradise mating dance never fails to make me smile ear to ear.
– This quote on love and being patient made me think.
– “People are just less connected with other people…. So *in fact*, there is less community. It’s not just that people feel it, it’s actually happening.
– I can’t stop watching this: A guy dropping something in Brasil
– ‘The Erasures’: a collection of oil and acrylic-on-canvas paintings that depict historical paintings of prominent political figures and landscapes, that have had large parts of their form erased.
– “Over-scheduled people develop a kind of tunnel vision. They’re just keeping their heads above water – scrambling from one meeting to the next, or one to-do list item to the next – and they become less insightful, less controlled, and less forward-thinking.”
– A complete guide to getting what you want. (via)
– Finally, Slack improved search.
– Instapaper is going independent. Wow. Hat tip off to Pinterest.
– Five ways to make your presentation better.
– Simone, the queen of silly robots, talks about her experience of having had to undergo brain surgery. Love this woman.
– Barack Obama’s 2018 Summer Reading List
– What a NYC moment. Made me laugh.
– I never understood why the Venom transactions are public to begin with: Make your Venmo transactions private. Seriously
– And I thought Lyft was the good guy. I guess I was wrong: MIT study shows how much driving for Uber or Lyft sucks
– Love this minimal Rail Wardrobe System.
– I’d call this “winning at life”
– Psst… Tattly launched a new website last week. Who knew filtering 700 designs by color is so much fun?
– A big thank you to Fundit for sponsoring my blog this week. Their service is super cool. I have some ideas on what t-shirts I want to make…
Cool jobs to apply for:
Did you know CreativeMornings recently launched a job board and a creative company directory?
– Ultravirgo in Brooklyn is looking to hire a Graphic Designer.
– The fine folks at HelpScout are looking to hire a Lead Product Manager. This position is remote.
– Spredfast in Austin is looking to hire a Creative Director.
– MailChimp is looking to hire a Senior Product Designer for their Brooklyn Office.
– Asana in SF is hiring 65 folks: From head of sales, to a German speaking Sales Rep. It’s like a buffet of jobs.
View all 400+ global job listings here.
The Art of Gathering
“We get lulled into the false belief that knowing the category of the gathering—the board meeting, workshop, birthday party, town hall—will be instructive to designing it. But we often choose the template—and the activities and structure that go along with it—before we’re clear on our purpose.”
― Priya Parker
Loving this book: The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
♥ / Fundit
A big thank you to Fundit for sponsoring my blog and RSS Feed this week.
Ever had an idea for a great t-shirt, but didn’t feel like coming up with hundreds of dollars, then ordering shirts, then collecting money from people, then stuffing them into bags, then hauling them to the post office and mailing them and then you realize you didn’t make any money?
Enter Fundit, the new shirt pre-ordering platform from the great minds behind the world’s softest t-shirts – Real Thread. Designed to help anyone with a great design and a great support base raise money for a great cause.
Send us your design and you’ll work one-on-one with a campaign specialist to create a shareable campaign web page that takes orders for you. Two weeks later, we print the shirts, mail them to each of your buyers and send you the profit via PayPal. Selling 36 shirts can get you as much as $500. Did we mention they’re the world’s softest t-shirts?
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Turtle Tears
Nature never ceases to amaze: In this video you can watch butterflies and bees drinking turtle tears in the Peruvian Amazon.
What Netflix Taught Me About Life
“The most radical act we can take is to make a commitment to a particular thing. … Pick a damn movie and see it all the way through.” – Pete Davis.
(via Chris)
No Ping No Pong
This poster by Anthony Burrill made me laugh.
A Beautiful Catastrophe
“A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe.”
— Le Corbusier
A Sense of Appreciation
“The more practice you give your brain at feeling and expressing gratitude, the more it adapts to this mind-set — you could even think of your brain as having a sort of gratitude “muscle” that can be exercised and strengthened. If this is right, the more of an effort you make to feel gratitude one day, the more the feeling will come to you spontaneously in the future. It also potentially helps explain another established finding, that gratitude can spiral: The more thankful we feel, the more likely we are to act pro-socially toward others, causing them to feel grateful and setting up a beautiful virtuous cascade.”
– Christian Jarrett
Found in this article: Sense of Appreciation Is the Single Most Sustainable Motivator at Work
CreativeMornings Manifesto
Everyone is creative.
A creative life requires bravery and action, honesty and hard work. We are here to support you, celebrate with you, and encourage you to make the things you love.
We believe in the power of community. We believe in giving a damn. We believe in face-to-face connections, in learning from others, in hugs and high-fives.
We bring together people who are driven by passion and purpose, confident that they will inspire one another, and inspire change in neighborhoods and cities around the world.
Everyone is welcome.
Every time I read our CreativeMornings Manifesto my heart swells up a little. Have a look and see if there is an event coming up in your city. And, if you’re a creative company, join our directory so you can be discovered and discover other heart forward creatively minded humans.
Smile Mirror
Smile Mirror meets People from Berk İlhan on Vimeo.
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure to meet Berk Ilhan, the inventor of Smile Mirror. It’s an emotionally smart mirror that is unlocked with the power of a smile. Totally wonderful. I would totally hang one in my home.
Paper Bag Backpack
Love this convertible, paper bag inspired Tote/Backpack designed by my friend Dave Ortiz for TIMBUK2. It’s two bags in one – exterior tote coupled with an interior drawcord backpack. Smart.
Beetle Puzzle
This Beetle Puzzle by DOIY is stunning. Comes with a adhesive sheets to stick the puzzle pieces together to frame or display as art at the end.
Please Close the Gate
This made me laugh.
Weird Kid
I love this t-shirt by James Victore: “The things that made you weird as a kid – make you great today!”