“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain; but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.”
— Dale Carnegie
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Any Fool Can Criticize
Meaningful Gatherings in this Time
Priya Parker shares tips on how to approach and reframe how we gather in this strange time of social distancing.
Start The Walk
“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.”
— Rumi
NOSIS
As a boy with an exceptionally long nose accidentally falls into a cake, his life changes in unforseen ways. Equipped with a Super-Nose he begins to reexplore life. But everything comes at a price. Weird and beautiful. Congrats Vincenz Neuhaus!
Link Pack
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– Couples in Lockdown, a powerful podcast from Esther Perel
– This year’s 99U Conference will be a free, digital experience.
– Did you know you can virtually visit vacation destinations from your couch?
– Play with your keyboard. (via)
– This made me laugh.
– Oh, and this too.
– Trees eating things. (via)
– Series iOS app allows you to assemble your photos in unique ways and create a carousel that splits photos over multiples frames, optimised for Instagram. (via)
– This is amazing: Create and Egg Wizard with your kids.
– Internet Archive offers 1.4 million copyrighted books for free online
– Feeling down? Sad Topography will make you feel more down. (via)
– OMG! Check out all of these free virtual “FieldTrips” organized by generous CreativeMornings community members. I did a craft night last week and it was a thing of beauty. A few coming up: Couples Thriving Through Crisis, Houseplant Basics, Let’s Make Origami, WTF is SEO… so many more. See them all here.
– You can watch Urbanized for free this week.
– I am here for this content: 84-Year-Old Italian Nonna Is Live-Streaming Pasta-Making Classes From Her Home Outside Rome
– Dan Cederholm published a book: Twenty Bits I learned About Design, Business and Community
– 94 Fun Things You Can Do at Home
– How Kinfolk Magazine Defined the Millennial Aesthetic… and Unraveled Behind the Scenes
– Soothe Yourself With These Zoo Livestreams
– I love a good breadbox. This is a pretty one.
– Tattly is hurting. My heart aches.
– A big thank you to Make it Remote for sponsoring my blog and RSS feed this week.
– I am grateful you’re here, in my little corner of the internet. Here’s a virtual hug.
Household Item Chairs
The “Isolation Chair” hashtag has gone viral. If you’ve not heard of it, it resembles a first-year Industrial Design school assignment: Grab some random materials and quickly assemble them into the likeness of a chair.
Walking
“Walking is mapping with your feet. It helps you piece a city together, connecting up neighbourhoods that might otherwise have remained discrete entities, different planets bound to each other, sustained yet remote. I like seeing how in fact they blend into one another, I like noticing the boundaries between them. Walking helps me feel at home. There’s a small pleasure in seeing how well I’ve come to know the city through my wanderings on foot, crossing through different neighbourhoods of the city, some I used to know quite well, others I may not have seen in a while, like getting reacquainted with someone I once met at a party.”
Business Hours
I feel this especially in this strange time.
The Great Ones
“The great ones do not set up offices, charge fees, give lectures, or write books. Wisdom is silent, and the most effective propaganda for truth is the force of personal example. The great ones attract disciples, lesser figures whose mission is to preach and to teach. These are gospelers who, unequal to the highest task, spend their lives in converting others. The great ones are indifferent, in the profoundest sense. They don’t ask you to believe: they electrify you by their behavior. They are the awakeners. What you do with your petty life is of no concern to them. What you do with your life is only of concern to you, they seem to say. In short, their only purpose here on earth is to inspire. And what more can one ask of a human being than that?”
— Henry Miller
How to Open Doors Hands-Free
This simple 3D-printable attachment lets you open doors hands-free. Want.
♥ / Make It Remote: A Survival Guide for the Future of Work
A big thank you to Make it Remote for sponsoring my blog and RSS feed this week.
So you’re stuck working from home, and aren’t sure how to stay productive… You’re in luck: This is the toolkit for you. Make It Remote is written based on over a decade of experience managing remote teams. Download today!
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– A comprehensive road map for implementing a remote working approach in your business.
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– Tips and tricks for time management, remote meeting facilitation, and more!
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Adventures in Solitude
I feel this photo by Cristina Carol.
Andrà Tutto Bene
(Thank you Libby)
Link Pack
– I virtually danced my heart out yesterday with The Get Down. It was just what I needed. Pure medicine. My friends in other cities joined, I pinned their video and felt like we were dancing together. I love the internet.
– With SXSW cancelled, independent artists missed the chance for their work to be seen. So, Mailchimp built a home for their short films on the Mailchimp Presents platform. Love. This. So. Much.
– This is dedication: Talking Book, a stop-motion experiment
– Super kid-friendly video from Vox about the importance of hand washing with soap to kill coronavirus.
– Practical ways to move from chaos to calm. (via)
– A massive list of authors (mostly children’s) reading their books online. (Thank you Ruth)
– I keep coming back to this Hurry Slowly podcast episode with Adrienne Maree Brown: Are you satisfiable?
– I have been on so many Zoom calls this week with hundreds of folks and some of them accidentally started sharing their screen. I didn’t realize there is such a thing as “Zoombombing”. This extensive Zoom guide by my team member and friend Alexa will help you prevent Zoombombing from happening.
– This boobie-vase is so funny.
– This Brooklyn Townhouse. Swoon!
– Seth Godin says we need to go back to curation. (He says some very nice things about me in this episode. Day made!)
– Nothing to see here. (Made me chuckle!)
– Netflix Party lets you watch Netflix with your friends online.
– These felted bunny slippers are adorable.
– Free mindful budgeting templates. (via Jocelyn)
– Even tough CreativeMornings is known for IRL (in real life) events, we are moving all gatherings to digital. Today there were over 30 events happening around the world. You can tune in from the comfort of your living room. Check out upcoming chapter events and virtual smaller virtual workshops called FieldTrips.
– Tattly is having a really hard time financially. My heart hurts.
– Sugar Mouse.
– Thank you Make It Remote for sponsoring my blog this week and sharing a wonderful resource helping us with establishing remote work routines.
How Are You?
“How are you doing?”
I have no idea how to answer anymore. Do you?
— Tina Roth Eisenberg (@swissmiss) March 27, 2020
Safe Grocery Shopping in COVID-19 Pandemic
This is helpful.
Update: There is some criticism floating around the internet about this video. Kottke summarized it here.
Search for Truth
“When the search for truth becomes a celebration of being, all of life transforms on it’s own.”
— Matt Kahn
Ziggy Stardust Cat Bed
Calling all David Bowie fans: Check out this Ziggy Stardust Cat Bed. GAH!
Sisyphus Works From Home
This made me smile.
♥ / Make It Remote: A Survival Guide for the Future of Work
A big thank you to Make it Remote for sponsoring my blog and RSS feed this week.
So you’re stuck working from home, and aren’t sure how to stay productive… You’re in luck: This is the toolkit for you. Make It Remote is written based on over a decade of experience managing remote teams. Download today!
Inside, you’ll find resources for both business leaders and team members, including:
– A comprehensive road map for implementing a remote working approach in your business.
– A step-by-step guide to creating your own remote work policy.
– Suggested tools and resources for working remotely.
– Tips and tricks for time management, remote meeting facilitation, and more!
Even better? For every download we get between now and April 5th, we’ll donate a meal to someone in need (up to 10,000 meals in total!). ALSO (!) if you do choose to donate when you download, we’ll share 50% of the proceeds with food banks and organizations focused on water, sanitation, and hygiene.
Finally, we also have a special edition for teachers and students! If that is you, check out the toolkit here.
Facemask Sewing Tutorial
You can find additional instructions and the pattern here.