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Have you found your stride in the New Year yet? January is always a time of reflection, renewal, and new beginnings; maybe even some hope. It’s also the time where I relearn the very practical but essential skills needed to make my workday possible - like taking a chisel to my calendar and carving out focus time wherever I see a possible opening.
As the year trundles on, the stream of last-year/new-year content on the internet slowly subsides. Still, as I was waiting in the cold outside our vet’s no-humans-allowed practice yesterday, regularly switching hands to stop my freezing fingers from falling off, I found some more items that very much felt befitting to this category. They’re part of the Seven Things I was curious about lately:
Design: Some cathartic reading on why your designer won't make the logo bigger for those who sometimes struggle to explain their own reasons
Design: List of the best UX tools you’re probably not yet using
Tech: Google buys Fitbit
Tech: Saudi Arabia’s plans to build a network of sustainable cities from scratch, powered by - naturally - AI
Art: Photos of flowers submerged in water look like classic oil paintings
Fun: Play The 2020 Game. You can finish in a few minutes and marvel at the creativity of its creator.
Mindset: How ‘toxic positivity’ does more harm than good
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