This looks like a nice addition to the Kanban board-style planner segment with a timescale view that helps you organise tasks into days, weeks, months, etc.

I sometimes struggle with reading and writing because of a very mild form of dyslexia. This experiment hits close to home; it simulates the reading experience of a dyslexic person.

Ever wanted to publish a long thread of ideas on Twitter and found the default interface too cumbersome? Typefully offers a simple editor that helps you split your text into tweet-sized chunks.

If your Mac feels sluggish, try (properly) removing Chrome as explained here. I don’t know enough about the technical details to tell whether this works as promised, but it’s worth a shot anyway. I used it as an excuse to remove Chrome for good. (I’m currently back on Safari with Firefox as an alternative.)

The Art of Noticing →

Unlearning our distraction habits

An illustrated mindfulness exercise book to help you re-tune your attention: “Through a series of simple and playful exercises – 131 of them – Walker maps ways for you to become a clearer thinker, a better listener, a more creative workplace colleague and finally, to rediscover your sense of passion and to notice what really matters to you.”

The Preserve Journal →

A more resilient, responsible food culture

The Preserve Journal is an independent print magazine that invites readers “to look beyond the bite of food on their fork, and to see the whole picture of their meal and their role in it.” Through a diverse range of voices, the publication wants to offer fresh perspectives on our eating habits as a “concrete resistance to the homogenised, industrialised and capitalistic structures that predominate today’s food culture”.

I absolutely loved this piece. Scott Santens uses his engineering background to argue for a universal basic income as a common-sense fail safe: “We have engineered a life support system without fault tolerance, and we did it because engineers didn’t design the system. Politicians did. Special interests did. And it’s built on antiquated job-centric moralism instead of contemporary life-centric realism. Realism demands that we recognize human beings need money to live within a system of private property that withholds legal access to basic resources on the condition of having money or qualifying for government assistance. It is mission critical for people to have money to spend on what they need to live. So just make sure they have it, by supplying it to everyone unconditionally.”

This article reaffirmed my feeling that people in tech are addicted to a false notion of the value of innovation and entrepreneurship. “Despite recurring fantasies about the end of work or the automation of everything, the central fact of our industrial civilisation is labour, and most of this work falls far outside the realm of innovation. Inventors and innovators are a small slice – perhaps somewhere around one per cent – of this workforce. If gadgets are to be profitable, corporations need people to manufacture, sell, and distribute them.”

I certainly found myself in this piece: I’m quite resolved when it comes to making big life decisions (marriage, kids, etc.) but spend way too much time deciding what book to read next. “One of the paradoxes of life is that our big decisions are often less calculated than our small ones are. We agonize over what to stream on Netflix, then let TV shows persuade us to move to New York; buying a new laptop may involve weeks of Internet research, but the deliberations behind a life-changing breakup could consist of a few bottles of wine. We’re hardly more advanced than the ancient Persians, who, Herodotus says, made big decisions by discussing them twice: once while drunk, once while sober.”