A sitemap and prototyping tool that can help you visualise the structure of a project. It also comes with a quote feature, so you can attach a price estimate to different sections of the sitemap.

Stack has evolved quite a bit since I first featured it in DD more than a year ago. Stack allows you to create tab groups and layouts for the many apps and sites you are using throughout the day. It also supports multiple accounts, so you could, for example, manage a stack of tabs for personal and for work use.

Replier helps you respond to long email or chat messages with more structure and clarity: copy-paste the message into Replier and select what you want to respond to. In the next step, write your responses to each point and transfer them back into your email/chat app. This (free) little tool would make a great plugin that integrates more deeply into Gmail or Slack.

Meditation is one of those things that I know would be good for me, I just never manage to make it a regular habit. There surely is no shortage of apps. Giving it one more go, this time with Medito.

Don’t Be Evil →

The Case Against Big Tech

A timely book: as we’re coming out of the lockdown, Big Tech emerges as the winner of the pandemic. “Today Google and Facebook receive 90% of the world’s news ad-spending. Amazon takes half of all ecommerce in the US. Google and Apple operating systems run on all but 1% of cell phones globally. How did we get here? How did the tech industry get to dominate our world so completely? How did once-idealistic and innovative companies come to manipulate elections, violate our privacy, and pose a threat to the fabric of our democracy?”

Pen Type-B →

Precision machined pen

Yes, more ‘forever pen’ options! The Type-B by CW&T is “a minimal everyday pen, over-engineered to last generations. Precision machined to create a piston-like effect between the pen and sleeve. The pen falls slowly and makes a nice popping sound when you pull it quickly from its sleeve.” Very satisfying to watch. And very expensive.

Not an easy read, but it ultimately offers hope in the form of human perseverance and ingenuity: “The human species will likely survive in spite of itself, though in a world warped by the bitter cruelties of our ruling classes. We may in fact go on surviving quite a bit longer than some prognosticators may imagine. There will doubtless be consequences for the effects we have on the environment, but no species before us has has the ability to engineer around these consequences.”

This video is just a short introduction to an openly available climate policy simulation tool (you can play with the tool itself here). What a fascinating way to illustrate the impact of systemic action as it relates to energy generation, economic growth, land use, and other aspects.

You might have seen this in your feeds. If you haven’t read it yet, it’s worth your time. The food delivery business model has no winners: “Uber Eats is Uber’s ‘most profitable division’. Uber Eats lost $461 million in Q4 2019 off of revenue of $734 million. Sometimes I need to write this out to remind myself. Uber Eats spent $1.2 billion to make $734 million. In one quarter.”