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Hi from Berlin, I'm Matt...
I've taken a few days out to visit somewhere different, and change my lens on the world. I hope I find you refreshed and ready for the week ahead.
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Onward with the Stuff that MattRs this week...
I've taken a few days out to visit somewhere different, and change my lens on the world. I hope I find you refreshed and ready for the week ahead.
Thank you for being a part of Stuff. If you received this email from an excellent friend, and would like to subscribe, please go here. If you'd like an archive of Stuff from the beginning of 2022 - it's here.
Onward with the Stuff that MattRs this week...
- Monday Motivation: Research shows that we spend 4.8 hours per day per user on our phones. What happens if you ditch social media before noon? I'm trying this for a week. Let this week be the one that you try and detach from your phone for a bit more each day.
- Your new superpower: The Productive Pause - a counter-intuitive superpower that will help you be more effective at work. Includes practical steps on how to implement this into your day.
- Essential Reading: Outrage! Our minds and morals did not evolve to cope with social media, and that's why it is easy to feel so 'triggered' all the time
- Take care: Your time management isn't a problem, but your energy management is. Four practical exercises that will help you manage your energy and improve your productivity and effectiveness.
- TWIL: Baileys (the drink) was developed by 2 advertising executives in twenty minutes as recently as 1973! Who knew?
- Stop trying to be nice: Being nice all the time creates its own set of problems. This video explains why.
- I will always be me: A beautiful and clever service that banks your voice, in case you ever lose the capacity of speech.
- Faded Beauty: An incredible gallery of abandoned Italian churches. I can feel a trip coming on!
- Say goodbye to productivity: A library of games for your brain, I apologise for any lack of output this week!
- Finally: Tinder for Cats. Of course it is.
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My aural stuff for you this week is old and unusual - and I was lucky enough to discover this on vinyl in a record shop here in Berlin. Electronic Universe Pt 1 by Software is some early 80's instrumental synth electronica. It's a stunner, and well worth a listen.
Listen to Software - Electronic Universe Pt1 on Spotify here.
Listen to Software - Electronic Universe Pt1 on Spotify here.
Smart Stuff that someone said:
"Berlin, the greatest cultural extravaganza that one could imagine." David Bowie
