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# Stuff #67 - Coffee, Good Tech, Wordles
- URL: https://www.mattrutherford.co.uk/stuff-67/
- Published: 2022-01-04T06:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-03-07T08:49:22.000Z
- Author: Matt
- Tags: Newsletter

Happy Monday, and importantly **welcome to a New Year** full of **opportunity** and **curiosity.**

Onwards with the Stuff that MattR’s this week…

1. **Monday Motivation** : [Start your week and year off with a short reflection on 2021](https://www.andrew.today/p/annual-reflection-exercise?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk), it’ll take 10 minutes but help you frame up your plans for 2022.
2. **Add to your toolbox** : Every time you switch between email and phone, or a message and a meeting, you leave a tiny bit of your attention behind. [Use a plan to help you reduce context switching.](https://blog.doist.com/context-switching/?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk)
3. **Take a quiz** : [Which productivity method suits you best?](https://doist.typeform.com/to/nqf2kj?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk) This five minute quiz was surprisingly accurate. I’m an ‘Eat the Frog’ advocate.
4. **I want 2022 to be the year of plain speaking.** [This tool could help us, it’s a reverse urban dictionary for business bullshit](http://unsuck-it.com/?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk). Keep this bookmarked at all times! (Thanks to LornaSue from Italy for sending this in, if you have a link you’d like shared, just hit reply)
5. *And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been. [*Rilke*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer%5FMaria%5FRilke?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk)*
6. **Get reading :** [Bookbub gives you daily deals and recommendations for your e-book reader](https://www.bookbub.com/welcome?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk). This is a great way to get bargains on books for your 2022 reading.
7. **Tech for real good** : [This amazing app allows you to act as ‘seeing eyes’ for a blind person, on demand.](https://reasonstobecheerful.world/be-my-eyes-app-visually-impaired/?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk) It is truly one of the best things I’ve seen tech enable.
8. **A year in pictures** : The Time Magazine Top 100 photos of the year is always a treat. [A year like 2021 is worth seeing through the lens of some top photographers.](https://time.com/6123078/top-100-photos-2021/?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk)
9. **Viral AND Good** : [Wordle is a daily word puzzle game that is going viral](https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk) \- it’s super simple, like the 70’s game Mastermind and you can share your results for each game. [Here’s mine for today - can you beat me?](https://twitter.com/mattr/status/1477912289739259904?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk)
10. **Finally** : [Tobias Reich collects coffees](https://coffee.electerious.com/?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk). Really. He knows coffee.

**My aural gift for you** this week is something pretty marvellous, [Signals by Marconi Sound](https://open.spotify.com/album/1z6YgGKHAEJ9FIV93LP4SI?si=vfj5r6wCR9yLKESr5tshDQ&ref=mattrutherford.co.uk) is an instrumental album with some nice lengthy tracks that is an excellent background for work or just a super chilled listen. There’s a really epic feel to some of these, that put me in mind of Mogwai in places.