> ## 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 #93 - Atchim! Bless you... - URL: https://www.mattrutherford.co.uk/stuff-93/ - Published: 2022-07-04T05:37:00.000Z - Updated: 2022-07-04T15:04:30.000Z - Description: Some practical ways to stop being so busy, supercharge your remote management skills and even learn to reduce anxiety through breathing. Oh, and sneezing around the world! Plus - I introduce 'Recommended Stuff' - Author: Matt - Tags: Newsletter 👓 Hi from **Dublin**, I'm Matt... Welcome to a new week, I hope that Stuff finds you safe and well. I'm introducing a new section today, Stuff Recommends, where I share some things that I think you might like - each week it'll be a newsletter, book, film or TV show that I've personally vetted to be worthy of YOU, my amazing reader. I hope you enjoy! *(Do you have something you think I should recommend? Hit reply, and get in touch)* **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:** [Let this week be the week that you STOP being busy](https://stff.me/93busy?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk), it's time to reframe the standard answer to, "How're you doing?" [Just start doing less, like the smartest person ever.](https://stff.me/93einstein?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk) You could even give up your to-do list completely because the whole concept is broken. [Try a 'leverage list' instead.](https://twitter.com/george%5F%5Fmack/status/1522566601073168385?s=20&t=umTXlzWKZQHp3v3Qyc3a4w&ref=mattrutherford.co.uk) *(Tip - this could be one of the best links I've ever posted)* 2. **Your new superpower:** It's time to power-up your remote management skills. [Here's some excellent advice on how to give feedback in a remote environment.](https://stff.me/93feedback?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk) You might not even need to give that feedback so often if you [figure out how share micro-tasks with your new remote workers.](https://stff.me/93microtasks?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk) 3. **Essential Reading:** [Eight secrets to a (fairly) fulfilled life.](https://stff.me/93secret8?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk) An insightful article from the always excellent [Oliver Burkeman.](https://stff.me/93oliver?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk) 4. **Take care:** [Take a look at box breathing](https://stff.me/93box?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk), a technique that can reduce anxiety, lower your blood pressure and help you feel calmer. I use a similar system to help me sleep, [4-7-8 is the pattern you need there.](https://stff.me/93sleep478?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk) **Bonus Stuff:* The best thing to help you sleep, [stop doomscrolling. ](https://stff.me/93sleep?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk)* 5. **TWIL:** [People around the world make different sounds when they sneeze](https://stff.me/93sneeze?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk). Bless you! 6. **Who are you today?** [36 questions that everyone should ask themselves from time to time. ](https://stff.me/93questions?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk) 7. **Thirty-odd years online:** I was around when the internet started coming to life, [here's an excellent timeline of what has happened so far.](https://stff.me/93internettime?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk) 8. **What does the fox say?** I'm loving [this gallery of superb urban wildlife photography](https://stff.me/93urban?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk). Some seriously excellent work in here. 9. **1365 and counting:** [Who knew there was an online database of all the dinosaurs?](https://stff.me/93dinosaurs?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk) Do you know your [Scipionyx](https://stff.me/93scipionyx?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk) (hah) from your [Acrocanthosaurus](https://stff.me/93crocanthosaurus?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk) (more like it). 10. **All the Wordles a stage:** Consider this my last post on wordle clones. [This page catalogues over 770 derivatives of the daily word game](https://stff.me/93alltheworldles?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk). Including [Artle](https://stff.me/91artle?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk) (Stuff 91), [Heardle](https://stff.me/86heardle?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk) (Stuff 86) and [Worldle](https://stff.me/93worldle?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk). **NEW : Recommended Stuff** 🗞 [TimeMachiner is an excellent newsletter](https://stff.me/93timemachiner?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk) from the desk of Aaron Crocco - this week he taught me that the Dingo Fence in Australia is longer than the distance between London and New York. #mindblown 📚 [Good Pop, Bad Pop is a clever memoir written by Jarvis Cocker](https://amzn.to/3OVLGWc?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk), and based on the items found in an attic full of memories. I read this on holiday, and it was a lot of fun, highly recommended. 🎧 My **aural stuff** for you this week is a lovely album from an unexpected source. Actor Jessie Buckley and indie-pop legend Bernard Butler who collaborated to make 'For all the Days that Tear our Heart'. The album is a lovely collection of indie-folk songs, seeded with an air of mystery and sometimes longing. I've really enjoyed this album, and it's worth a quiet listen, with beautiful vocals and some sublime arrangements. [Listen to Jessie Buckley and Bernard Butler - For all the Days that Tear our Heart on Spotify here.](https://stff.me/93music?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk) ### Stuff that someone said: > *"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."* –[William Blake](https://stff.me/93blake?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk) 📫 Do you love independent writing? [I recommend The Sample.](https://thesample.ai/?ref=1153) Every day, they will send you a novel newsletter you might like, no obligation.