🌋 Dean's Newsletter #30
🌋 Dean's Newsletter #30
Hitler's birthday has nothing to do with it.
Howdy! 👋
Here are 5 things I wanted to share with you this week.
☑️ Perception Gap
I just heard about The Perception Gap site today, but I’m convinced that I’ll be talking about it months from now. Click through and take the quiz first, then browse through some of things findings. It’s a healthy opportunity to challenge some of your beliefs.
🐥 Nuzzel
When I start feeling like my social media and news feed checking is coming too habitual I’ll delete the apps from my phone. A service I never turn off though is my Nuzzel email. It takes the people I follow on Twitter and looks at any links that multiple of them have shared. This not only encourages me to follow higher quality people, but also more people in the fields that I’m most interested in.
🤵🏻♂️ Bartender
When I realize there’s an app I use daily I feel like it’s worth sharing on here. This one is a bit boring, but keeps me sane. Bartender allows you to control the apps that show up in your menu bar. You choose which apps show all the time, part of the time, never, and what order the go in. It’s simple, but oh so useful. Here’s what my current menu bar looks like:
And here’s what it would look like if I wasn’t using Bartender (aside from the Bartender icon):
😸 Scratch
Learning the concepts of computer programming might be the most valuable thing I’ve learned in my life. I found that I learned best when doing things with instant visual feedback. Processing is what I did a lot of my learning with, but if I were to start over or if/when I teach a kid I’ll probably start with Scratch. I’ve used it to help teach my nephews some programming and found it a perfect balance between ease of use/learning and teaching powerful programming concepts.
🧲 What Polarizes People
I’ve been working my way through This Explains Everything by John Brockman. I’m taking it slow and reading it between other books, but I’ve been thiking a lot about this little equation from it lately and trying to find more ways to become less segregated from differing opinions.
opinion-segregation + conversation → polarization
❤️
Thanks for reading.
Be sure to check out my previous posts.
Hit reply and tell me what you enjoyed the most or share something similar you have found.
-Dean