Hey from Dublin,
I hope that the weeks mail finds you safe and well.
It's a public holiday here in Ireland, celebrating St Brigid of Kildare who apparently was able to turn water into beer, which is every reason to be beatified.
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A big thank you to new visitors over the last month, I've seen a decent bit of growth despite some clean-up from subscribers that don't open the mail at all.
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The Stuff Ten
Links to make us smarter and more super...
- Monday Motivation: Let this week be the one where you improve your reading. If you spend 1% of your day reading, the benefits compound. You can build a simple system to read 30 books a year. Here are three more tips to help you read more. You could even form a habit, 20 pages per day will take 30 mins and will change your life. You can use my free tracker to help build the habit.
- Your new superpower: I had to make a tough decision at work this week, I'm grateful for the people around that helped me get more comfortable making the choice. What also helped was falling back on a framework - I used this process to make my tough call.
- Essential Reading: Are you moving fast, or moving with velocity? Growth is a direction, not a destination.
- Take care: Any budget, any challenge - now AI can help generate your skin care routine. There is also a club.
- TWIL: Punxsutawney Phil is not the only weather predicting rodent in America.
- Breathe deeply: I've been using a deep breathing technique (4-7-8) to help get to sleep for a while now, now there is an app that can help you alleviate stress, energize yourself or even improve endurance. Bonus Stuff - more ways to help improve your sleep.
- No more pop-ups: Super Agent sits in your browser and stops the annoying cookie pop-ups, I've been using this for a few weeks and it's brilliant.
- Global Eyesores: The ugliest buildings in the world, as decided by Twitter. Including a UK and US specific list. There are a few in here which I really like, Balfron Tower in London is a design classic!
- Ask Bill, or Yoda, or Michael Scott: Askfamouspeople.com uses AI to let you have a conversation with famous people. I had a decent chat with Bill Gates. Alternatively, you can have a chat with a cat.
- Finally: Weaver is a new way of playing one of the oldest puzzle games. It's great to see how close you were to the perfect solution. nave
🎧 Aural Stuff
What's on the Stuff speakers this week?
🎧 Celebrating Black History Month with this excellent playlist charting some amazing artists. From futuristic R&B to proto-rock'n'roll via all points in between.
I highly recommend putting this playlist on for 3 hours of top tunes.
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