Wrapped in a beautiful, calm design, My Mind is a bookmarking engine that stores anything you want to save for later – files, websites, texts, quotes etc. – and then lets you search by colour, keyword, brand, date etc. with the help of an integrated AI analytics feature. My Mind promises good privacy, no tracking, no ads and no social features.

If you’re curious about alternatives to the established startup and business models prevalent in Silicon Valley and the wider tech sphere, this extensive (free) Post Growth Entrepreneurship class from the University of Amsterdam will inspire you to think beyond the growth-at-all-cost template.

A simple collection of images that take advantage of the iPhone’s ‘depth effect’ when applied as a home screen. Sites like this make me reminisce of the early days of the web when wallpapers were traded like baseball cards.

Movie Maths offers a simple formula for recommending something else to watch: ‘if you like this and this movie, try that one’. Data comes from the excellent The Movie Database.

An Immense World →

The astonishing world of animal senses

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ed Yong takes us on a tour of the radically different ways that animals perceive the world through their own unique sensory bubble. “We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires, turtles that can track the Earth’s magnetic fields, fish that fill rivers with electrical messages, and even humans who wield sonar like bats. We learn what bees see in flowers, what songbirds hear in their tunes, and what dogs smell on the street. We listen to stories of pivotal discoveries in the field, while looking ahead at the many mysteries that remain unsolved.”

The Courage of Compassion →

From judgement to connection

A book that makes us interrogate our fears and beliefs about justice and punishment – written by Robin Steinberg, a public defender who represents people ‘at their worst moment’. “Compassion for others, especially those that we don’t know or understand, must be learned. Our lack of compassion is perhaps most extreme in the exercise of criminal justice, where a person’s entire life, worth, and character are judged through the myopic lens of a single act.”

Giving readers a taste of his new book (featured in DD248), Morgan Housel offers some psychological nuggets about how and why we spend money in the right and wrong ways. “People generally aspire to be respected and admired by others, and using money to buy fancy things may bring less of it than you imagine. If respect and admiration are your goal, be careful how you seek it. Humility, kindness, and empathy will bring you more respect than horsepower ever will.”

Another great video by Not Just Bikes, this time with a closer look at the noise levels generated by cars (and other vehicles) and how it impacts the liveability of cities. “Electric vehicles are definitely an improvement, but only at low speeds, where rolling noise is minimal. In fact, electric cars may be even worse at high speeds, because tire noise increases with tire width as well as by weight.”

Here in Australia, our environment minister is pushing for a so-called ‘nature repair market’ that would treat ecosystems like a share market. In this short piece, Adrienne Buller asks whether these ‘green’ finance schemes can actually protect the natural world. “Efforts to ‘protect’ nature through its commodification are ultimately founded upon continuity with the very economic model underpinning nature’s state of crisis in the first place. They hinge on the belief that despite all evidence to the contrary – markets are the most efficient and effective way to prevent ecological breakdown.”