These days, give yourself permission to be human.
Stop Trying to Be Productive × Taylor Lorenz
I was born in 1971, so you can imagine my interest in the site WTF happened in 1971.
6 tools that are more powerful than to-do lists for productivity × Stephanie Vozza
I am worried about my fellow Dutch citizens. The general idea in the Netherlands is that they have the coronavirus under control, but they have not.
The death numbers are following Italy’s numbers and today arrived at the point in which Italy went on lock down (which was already rather late).
Furthermore, the Netherlands are a small country. This amount of deaths has placed them at the 5th position on the ranking of deaths per 100.000 habitants (after San Marino, Italy, Spain and Andorra).
Why doesn’t the Dutch government want to take action?
My advice for businesses: dump Zoom as soon as possible. For most use cases (small team meetings) I recommend Whereby as an alternative.
New circumstances make for new routines.
One of the new routines in our family is taking some time after dinner to listen to the song of the day created by these three guys.
Featured in The New Yorker: The Group Making Beautiful Quarantine Songs on a Barcelona Rooftop.
Surely I’m old school, but I still think that Twitter threads are a horrible and user-unfriendly hack.
Why don’t you just publish your thoughts on a place that supports long-form copy and link to it on Twitter?
Please remember:
We’re always in control of the two most important determinants in our lives:a.) How we spend our time.
and…
b.) Where we direct our focus.
(Via Wally Bock)
Will Zoom’s free tier limits finally achieve that business meetings will be limited to 40 minutes?