> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.mattrutherford.co.uk/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Stuff #81 - Minimum Viable Prawn - URL: https://www.mattrutherford.co.uk/stuff-81/ - Published: 2022-04-11T05:51:00.000Z - Updated: 2022-04-11T05:50:59.000Z - Description: Monday Motivation, superpowers and minimum viable prawns... it's the Stuff that MattRs this week. - Author: Matt - Tags: Newsletter 👓 Hi from **Dublin**, I'm Matt... Back home after a lovely long weekend in Berlin, soaking up the sights and sounds of a different city. I hope that this finds you well, and ready for an awesome week. You deserve it. **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](https://mattrutherford.co.uk/newsletter?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk). If you'd like an archive of Stuff from the beginning of 2022 - [it's here](https://www.mattrutherford.co.uk/tag/newsletter/).* Onward with the **Stuff that MattRs** this week... --- 1. **Monday Motivation:** Make this week the one that you reduce the number of meetings in your calendar. [We all know what happens when you have too many meetings](https://stff.me/81meetings?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk), no time for deep work and the rise of the **triple peak** day. [Here are some practical actions you can take right now](https://stff.me/81reducemeetings?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk) to improve your work/meeting balance. 2. **Your new superpower:** Nearly everything you write at work is a list, and the sooner you realise it the easier it'll be to turn your writing into a superpower. [ This article explains why, and how to get better every day. ](https://stff.me/81lists?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk) 3. **Essential Reading:** [Ten lessons from great businesses, these are all applicable and practical](https://stff.me/81lessons?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk). #3 and #10 are excellent advice for anyone in business. Essential. 4. **Take care:** You have devoured c20,000 news items in the past 12 months - 60 per day at a conservative estimate. Did any of them help you make a better decision about your life, family, career, well-being, or business? [No news is good news.](https://stff.me/81news?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk) 5. **TWIL:** [People in Rwanda go to bars to drink milk](https://stff.me/81milkbar?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk). Found via the excellent BBC site - [50 reasons to love the world. ](https://stff.me/81fiftyreasons?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk) 6. **Boom, gone:** If you use twitter, you should be able to[block the tweet, its author, and every single person who liked it—in one click](https://stff.me/81megablock?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk). By the way, [I'm here on the tweet machine](https://stff.me/twittermatt?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk) \- give me a follow. 7. **Put that on the wall!** I love taking pictures, [here are a few recent ones](https://stff.me/81berlinpics?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk), but it's worth remembering that most of us carry round a high-quality camera, [and a masterpiece in your camera roll.](https://stff.me/81masterpiece?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk) 8. **Play it again Sam:** Get your Liberace on in Liberia, or your Clayderman in Cardiff, with this [directory of public pianos around the world](https://stff.me/81pianos?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk). 9. **Minimum Viable Prawn:** [How to calculate the right amount of prawns](https://stff.me/81prawns?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk) for the prawn party (?) you might be having. File under 'really useful'. 10. **Finally:** Don't be a snowflake, [learn ABOUT snowflakes.](https://stff.me/81snowflake?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk) --- [Crate Digging in BerlinA weekend of vinyl hunting in Germanys biggest city with amazing record shops and some decent finds.![](https://www.mattrutherford.co.uk/favicon.png)Matt RutherfordMatt Rutherford![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/c2/2e/c22ecd6b-9412-4701-b914-97051141e207/content/images/2022/04/IMG_2429.jpeg)](https://www.mattrutherford.co.uk/crate-digging-in-berlin/) I wrote a piece on my trip to Berlin to buy vinyl, it's here if you want to catchup on my journey! --- 🎧 My **aural stuff** this week is the fantastic new album from Kae Tempest - spoken word, beat poetry - whatever you call it, this album is a fantastic blend of words and beats, and will be everywhere for the next few months. Get in early - if you don't listen to anything else, just find track 5, Salt Coast - amazing. [Listen to Kae Tempest - The Line is A Curve on Spotify here. ](https://stff.me/81tempest?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk) --- ### Stuff that someone said: > "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way." **Viktor Frankl**