Browser extension Rooster (Chrome only) keeps you informed about your browsing habits: it automatically tracks how much you are spending time on which website and then shows that data every time you open a new tab. Data is only stored locally.

Your ‘cloud’ storage only really exists as long as you pay your subscription fees and the company who runs it doesn’t disappear. Permanent.org wants to give you an everlasting digital space for important data that you pay for once. How? The model invests your contributions into a non-profit endowment that covers the perpetual cost of storage.

Dunked is a portfolio builder for visual artists such as designers, photographers, and illustrators. I really like how its light aesthetic footprint puts the artwork front and centre.

Userguiding lets you build interactive product walkthroughs and new feature highlights that help with onboarding new users.

The Emotionally Intelligent Office →

Emotional skills for the workplace

Modern businesses place huge emphasis on technical training. And yet a lot of what determines the success or failure of organisations has nothing to do with the sort of hard skills taught at business school; instead, it comes down to the degree of emotional intelligence circulating in the workplace. This book is an in-depth exploration of what really lies behind our problematic behavioural patterns in the workplace, and a blueprint for the emotional skills we need to overcome them.

Drippy Pots →

Happy, hand-made ceramics

These coffee mugs make me want to eat donuts. Brian Giniewski and a team of a talented makers produce ‘Drippy Pots’ from Philadelphia in the US. Each piece is painstakingly hand-made and requires a full month to create from start to finish. “The Drippy Pots brand is about making special, unique pieces of art that are both happy and accessible.”

How often do you think about entrepreneurship when you get your hair cut or get a take-away coffee? “If Casper, WeWork or some celebrity’s makeup company doesn’t survive this crisis, the impact on our lives will be negligible. Elon Musk will be fine. But if we lose our barber, the fruit store on the corner or the plumber who saved us in a flood, we will have lost a piece of ourselves.”

That title got your attention, didn’t it? It certainly got mine. A fascinating read about VHEMT – the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. “Taking care of the humans that are already here is a major part of VHEMT. We can take better care of those who are here by not creating more.” [If paywalled use Incognito Mode]

A really enjoyable piece with some interesting insights into how Wikipedia managed to remain a fairly reliable and trustworthy source of information in a sea of troll-powered misinformation. “‘There’s a part of that that is encouraging, that says that a radically open, collaborative worldwide project can build one of the most trusted sites on the internet,’ says Ryan Merkley, the chief of staff at the Wikimedia Foundation. ‘There’s another piece of that that is quite sad, because it’s clear that part of being one of the most trusted sites on the internet is because everything else has collapsed around us.’”