BrainPint - Everything Is A Remix

Hi everyone,

This week we're diving into remixes, good questions, a touching life ode to life and useful tips on how to rest well as we enter the holiday season.

Merry Christmas in advance to those celebrating!

Cheers,
Janel

Everything is a Remix Remastered
This is a classic that continues to influence myself and many others on creativity, originality, and copyright. I watched this 10 years ago and it has always stuck with me. I highly recommend this brilliant and educational 30-minute video. They recently released an update on memes & genres here.

Get Off The Treadmill And Onto The Trail
It's meaningless to just run along endlessly on someone else's treadmill. Start defining your own trail - your own concept of fulfillment, success and happiness.

Questions to ask yourself as the year winds down:

• What is something that would give me energy and meaning?
• What is something I am passionate about that I am not engaging in today?
• Looking back on this moment five years from now, what is something my future self would wish I had started to do today?
• What do I wish I had started years ago? 

"I just learned I only have months to live. This is what I want to say"
A beautiful, moving story about life from the lens of a Boston Globe reporter. “I’m not sure what awaits me when I get home, but this has certainly been an exciting experience. … I just wish I could stay a little longer.” Read this, then hold your loved ones tight.

I Have A Few Questions
Thoughtful questions for everyone to ask themselves. Some picks:

• Which of my current views would change if my incentives were different?
  
• What looks unsustainable but is actually a new trend we haven’t accepted yet?
• What are we ignoring today that will seem shockingly obvious in a year?

How To Rest Well
Resting well this holiday season can help set you up for a happier, more productive and sustainable year. My favorite takeaway from this article: "Treat rest as a skill".

PocketTube - Free Chrome Extension that helps you to organize your YouTube subscriptions. Create subscription groups, filter, sort and mark videos as watched.

Handwrytten - Want to send out letters that look handwritten to friends, family or customers, this works like a charm. It can have magical effects and bring smiles to people's faces, though it's definitely not cheap. Personally, I'm just glad that no one has to read my horrendous handwriting when I use this service.

The Ultimate Google Sheets Toolkit - Useful Google Sheet templates, categorized and sorted.

GIFrun - Create high-quality GIFs from YouTube videos.

2021 Your Year In Meetings - Get a free report about how much time you've spent in meetings this year. I've spent 429.9 hours in meetings at work (and that's after hosting a ton of live events!)

Busy Simulator - Feign busyness with repeating notification sounds. I don't know why you would use this because notification sounds personally drive me crazy, but it could probably be a good prank.

Mess With DNS - Learn more about DNS by experimenting with it in a sandbox.