Sizle is a web-based presentation tool that adds additional features to your slideshow: analytics give you insights into your audience’s behaviour and forms allow you to interact with viewers. You can also receive notifications when your documents are opened and interacted with.

As I mentioned in the past, I’ve been on the lookout for community platforms for a private project. Circle is by far the most interesting and feature-fitting one. Their founder recently sent through a pre-launch video preview that really impressed me. If you’re thinking about adding a community element to your site and don’t like Slack, Circle offers more features and flexibility, and less FOMO.

Ever needed to check yourself or your backdrop before launching a video call? Hand Mirror is a tiny macOS menu bar app. When you click on it, you get the view from your camera.

A friend recently introduced me to the world of Nonograms, which are Japanese picture logic puzzles. Nonograms work similar to Sudoku, but with a ‘paint-by-numbers’ element to it. This Nonograms app (Android and iOS) offers over 1000 free puzzels. To give it a try, learn how to play here and then play a first game right in your browser.

New Philosopher →

Contemporary everyday philosophy

New Philosopher is an Australian independent magazine devoted to exploring philosophical ideas that challenge contemporary thought and conditioning. It aims to guide readers into living a happier and freer mode of existence. I buy the occasional issue and always get something thought-provoking out of it. Completely ad free, the publication relies on print and digital subscriptions. (I bet you can hardly resist their beautiful covers!)

Timelapse →

How we change the earth

One of my favourite websites is about to release its newest book: Overview’s Timelapse is a photographic survey of the state of change on Earth today, featuring stunning satellite imagery of how our species has shaped the surface of our planet. “With more than 250 new, mesmerizing images such as sprawling cities and the patterns created by decades of deforestation, this book offers a fresh perspective of change on Earth from a larger-than-life scale.”

Kirby Ferguson – maker of the popular Everything is a Remix – with a new documentary that explains how fear and anxiety drives us towards ‘magic thinking’ that’s at the heart of conspiracy theories but also milder forms of irrational thinking, such as superstitions and astrology. A fair warning: as you’d expect, it gets pretty weird and dark quickly.

I loved Craig’s writing on emotional intelligence in his latest newsletter. I’ve long been curious about the many different ways emotional intelligence presents itself and Craig encapsulates it extremely well. “Folks who tend to attack – rather than deconstruct, or empathize – are often trapped in tremendously narrow world views. They tend to see all relationships as existing within a thin column, a tight hierarchy of being above or below each other. And in service to that ‘alpha’ pole position at the top of the column, they need to attack and make sure you or your work sits below.”

A new show by Gimlet exploring climate solutions from a US perspective with their signature light-hearted approach. The first episode (The Witch of Wind) shows how powerful and totally irrational the opposition by fossil fuel lobbying groups is. The second episode (The Green Wave) really highlights how far ahead Europe is, not just compared to the US, but also where I live, Australia, and frankly the rest of the world.