Studio Bower launched the Melt Line.
This chair won my heart. (Yes, it is very expensive. And yes, it’s beautiful!)
#DanceTheVote
The magnetic Tasha Blank is hosting a virtual dance party to #DanceTheVote on Thursday October 29th, 8pm ET! I’ll be there! Join me? Registration is free and everyone is welcome!
Furious Dancing
“Hard times require furious dancing”.
— Alice Walker
(Come dance virtually with Tasha Blank on October 29th, 8pm, for free!)
Halloween 2020 Humor
This made me laugh.
Wine Glass Drying Coaster
I would totally put these wine glass drying coasters to use.
♥ / Trivial
A big thank you to Trivial for sponsoring my blog this week.
Trivial aims to help non-developers flow data between services easily and build custom web apps, think of it as a souped-up Zapier and Shopify combo.
They are looking to interview designers, product managers or any other interested humans on how they’d use a tool like this. If you know what APIs are but need someone else to use them, they’d love to talk to you. Sign up for updates!
Avocado Vase
I love this Avocado Vase. (At the rate I am going my apartment is going to morph into an Avocado forest soon.)
Keith Haring Stacking Figures Game
This Keith Haring Stacking Figures Game made me look.
5-Step Road Map For Saying No
1. Remind yourself that time is valuable and once it’s spent you absolutely can’t get it back.
2. Ask yourself: “Would I be willing to do this thing tomorrow?” It’s easy to sign yourself up for something in April when it’s only September. Do your future self a favor and try this little exercise.
3. Respond quickly. Don’t leave people hanging once you know you’re saying no.
4. Own your “no” if it’s not a priority (because something else actively is): “Thanks so much for thinking of me. I’m not going to be able to take this on, but I wish you the best with X.”
5. Reframe your “no” to assuage your guilt (if it’s something you genuinely wish you had time for). Acknowledge that this commitment is significant to you, even if you’re not taking it on. A good sample script: “This is so important that it deserves someone’s full energy, and since I can’t do that because I have XYZ other things, I would be dishonoring the importance of this event/role/weekend getaway by saying yes.”
What I Thought I Wanted
Feeling this photo. I found it over on Positive Vibe Tribe.
Link Pack
– I am heartbroken over the news that Keith Jarrett will no longer be able to perform. I happened to be at what is now known as his last ever concert, at Carnegie Hall in 2017.
– A Master List of 1,500 Free Courses From Top Universities: 50,000 Hours of Audio/Video Lectures to Enrich Your Mind
– I love this Grateful Print by Real Fun Wow.
– If you’re a Capricorn or know one, you might appreciate this Instagram account.
– How to stop believing things that are no longer serving you. (via Jocelyn)
– Gulp: People-pleaseers often start out as parent-pleasers.
– Daisugi: The Japanese Forestry Technique of Creating a Tree Platform for Other Trees
– This Neon LED Tube is fun.
– These are pretty, colorful face masks.
– Use this coverlet to cover your unsightly plant pots
– Chose your humans wisely. (via)
– On Being with Krista Tippett with Sharon Salzberg – Shelter for the Heart and Mind
– 40 Irish female musicians virtually came together to play a cover of ‘Dreams’ by The Cranberries
– I am an Immigrant. I’d wear this hat.
– I am completely in love with Otter. I use it to transcribe talks I have given, record meetings so I can be more present in meetings and don’t focus on taking notes. Or I use it when I am thinking out loud.
– Doctors May Have Found Secretive New Organs in the Center of Your Head
– Priya Parker’s offers guiding questions for finding your gathering’s purpose in a recent Art of Gathering newsletter.
– Tell the world you voted, by wearing an I am a voter Tattly!
– Did you know CreativeMornings runs a job board? It taps into our super kind and talented creative community. Go check it out.
– Thank you Hidden Mirrors for sponsoring my blog this week. Hidden Mirrors is a super fun visual game, with the right amount of an 80s vibe. You can download it for Apple and Android.
How to Live Adventurously Every Day
I was lucky enough to experience this DO Lectures talk by Alastair Humphreys live in 2018. I keep coming back to it, when I need a little kick in the butt and a reminder to just push myself out of my daily routines and comfort zones. I keep wondering, especially now, in times of Covid, how can I live more adventurously? What micro adventures can I add to my day?
Transactional Analysis : “Games People Play”
Vintage videos with Dr. Berne about Transnational Analysis, a system for understanding people’s behavior who are trying to change people’s behavior and for predicting people’s behavior.
The Keep Going Song
I needed this today.
Teno: Sound in a New Light
I remember last year, when I had lunch with the wonderfully thoughtful and talented Max Guwanan, who’s aesthetic I deeply admire, and he showed me his latest product prototype. I at first wasn’t sure what I was looking at and he proceeded to explain it’s a light but also a speaker. Fast forward to this week, where he launched Teno, a new kind of speaker and a new kind of light. And most of all, a beautifully sculptural object. Congrats Max, you did it again. First Lumio, now Teno.
Life is An Ongoing Adventure
“Because of the routines we follow, we often forget that life is an ongoing adventure…and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art: to bring all our energies to each encounter, to remain flexible enough to notice and admit when what we expected to happen did not happen. We need to remember that we are created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.”
– Maya Angelou
Chalets of Switzerland
These photographs of Swiss houses by Patrick Lambertz stopped me in my tracks. Having grown up in Switzerland, this architecture is so deeply familiar and comforting. (The series is called Swiss Chalets, but I disagree, these are not chalets.)
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To Be Kind
Three Things in Human Life Are Important.
The First Is To Be Kind.
The Second Is To Be Kind.
And the Third Is To Be Kind
— Henry James
NYC’s New Digital Subway Map
The new MTA Live Subway Map is a real-time digital map designed to help riders navigate New York City’s ever-evolving transportation network.
The Live Subway Map is a web-based application that works across a range of devices. It’s a pro bono collaboration between the MTA, the Transit Innovation Partnership , and design and technology company Work & Co.
Ordinary
“Ordinary isn’t the enemy but instead something nourishing and unavoidable, the bedrock upon which the rest of experience ebbs and flows. Embrace this — the warm water, the pruned hands, the prismatic gleam of the bubbles and the steady passage from dish to dish to dish — and feel, however briefly, the breath of actual time, a reality that lies dormant and plausible under all the clutter we pile on top of it. A bird makes its indecipherable call to another bird, a song from a passing car warps in the Doppler effect and I’m reminded, if only for a moment, that I need a lot less than I think I do and that I don’t have to leave my kitchen to get it.”
– Mike Powell, An Ode to Washing the Dishes
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♥ / Hidden Mirrors Game
A big thank you to Hidden Mirrors for sponsoring my blog this week.
Hidden Mirrors is a mobile game for and by people that don’t play mobile games. It’s visual, addictive and just the right amount of an 80s vibe.
The goal of the game is to fill the highlighted tiles, either one at a time, or by swiping to mirror everything you’ve filled already. The way the symmetries unfold appear deceptively simple, and it becomes a pleasant visualization exercise to predict how the inner shapes will interact.
Hidden Mirrors is free for a limited time. You can download it for Apple and Android. And, you can even win a free t-shirt if you beat the Pacifica levels!(They have given out 160 T-Shirts so far!)
Awkward
“Social skills are like any other kind of ability in that they require practice.” Smith writes in the latest edition of her newsletter, Inside Your Head. “And by this point in the pandemic, starved of normal, everyday social interactions — running into an acquaintance on the street, sharing an elevator with a co-worker, or making small talk with a barista — most of us are pretty rusty.”
We’ve already gotten kind of awkward. But over the next few months, with even fewer chances to practice being social in person, we’re all about to get super awkward.
