2021 is when lockdown will stop mattering (Interconnected)
First you cope and then you adapt. The kicker: once you adapt, you may not want to go back.
Link tags: habit
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A Web Developers New Working Week
I think these are great habit-forming ideas for any web designer or developer: a day without using your mouse; a day with your display set to grayscale; a day spent using a different web browser; a day with your internet connection throttled. I’m going to try these!
Rotating Space Station Numbers
Ever wondered what would happen if you threw a ball inside an orbital habitat? Well, wonder no more!
You can adjust the parameters of the space station, or choose from some pre-prepared examples: an O’Neill cylinder, a Stanford torus, a Bernal sphere, Rama, a Culture orbital…
Slapdashery
I really like this short-form writing project from Ben:
Daily off-the-cuff thoughts on design, UX, and products, written in 5 minutes without stopping.
He has also documented some of his strategies to make sure he sticks with it. Smart!
Russell Davies: Unbooked: How to live mindfully in a literate world
The many benefits of an analogue detox. There’s neuroscience and everything.
It’s so important that we take the time to connect and switch on.
How We Could Actually Build a Space Colony - Popular Mechanics
This is basically porn for me.
Bernal spheres, Stanford tori, and O’Neill cylinders, oh my!
A Few Notes on the Culture by Iain M Banks
I’ve linked to this before, but with the death of Iain M Banks it’s worth re-reading this fascinating insight into The Culture, one of science fictions’s few realistic utopias.
The brief mention here of The Culture’s attitude to death is apt:
Philosophy, again; death is regarded as part of life, and nothing, including the universe, lasts forever. It is seen as bad manners to try and pretend that death is somehow not natural; instead death is seen as giving shape to life.