What San Francisco Looked Like Before The Dot-Coms Invaded (via Design.Co). Beautiful pictures that I clicked on out of guilt.
Mother Tongues. Super neat infographic breaking down languages across the world in different ways.
DESIGN
- Modern Design Tools: Using Real Data. Recently, I refused to start “wireframing” before the content was flushed out. Yes, it takes more work to develop content, but that content is part of the work you need to do in order to produce good work. Part of that is getting real data.
- How Alexander McQueen’s grotesque creations wrecked the runway. This was a great article that offered insight into Alexander McQueen’s work. Thank you, Sarah, for introducing me to such a fascinating person!
SOCIAL
- The weirdest friendships you find yourself in once you hit 30. Grant shared this with me and it’s so appropriate to the all the life stuff happening to me right now. The sheer loneliness of being in a new city without any of your close friends. In fact, it’s difficult to talk to your close friends because the time zone + working make a pretty big difference…It’s a long article and probably only interesting to people who are being thoughtful about friendships right now.
- The Rhino Hunter (Radio Lab). This is a segment that tells the hunter’s side of the story, specifically the hunter who was (in)famous for buying a permit to shoot an endangered black rhino. I really loved this segment because it told the side of a story I never here. It reminded me how important is to know all the context before making a judgment. All of our media sites are able to just give us the stories we’re most likely to click on or reflect our current interests, but it’s so important to continually challenge our beliefs, too. Don’t get stuck inside your own social bubble.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
- What You Miss When You Take Notes on Your Laptop (via HBR). YES! This article made me so happy. It’s about how you learn better or are more attentive when you take notes by hand. As a hand-note-taker, I have been saying this for years.
- Welcome to hell: Apple vs. Google vs. Facebook and the slow death of the web. This was a super interesting article to me because I’m pretty naive and I was reminded that, oh yeah, business are actively trying to bring each other down.
- The clever reason why Microsoft first put Solitaire on Windows. It’s funny to think that drag & drop was a difficult task at one time.
- From the Archives: Oliver Sacks’ Table of Elements. Because we all miss Oliver Sacks now. Rest in peace.
MEDIA
- The 37 Best Websites To Learn Something New. Because you should never stop learning, right? I took the Philosophy course from Highbrow and it was pretty painless (just short emails on a subject delivered daily).
- The Canon of Philosophy Student Karaoke Songs (via McSweeney’s ). Spoiler: Just all puns.
- Inside the 2015 Man Booker Longlist. Add this to the books I want to read but that I’ll get to never…sigh.
- Words matter? How I lost my belief that language can change the world (via Medium). I clicked on this skeptically, but it ended up giving me something to chew on. How do you really measure understanding?
