Note to Self

Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect. — Gloria Steinem in her book Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions.

Link: Chris & Gina – Coming Soon When you know you love working with someone, keep doing it.

Gina Trapani I’ve always been curious about 3D printers, so last fall when there was a Black Friday deal on a great model, I picked one up.

Link: TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA | Official Trailer | In Theaters August 7 My favorite pieces of art make me understand and appreciate things I’ve never cared about before.

Link: Introducing Dashboard Touch, a build-your-own version of Touch ID - Anil Dash Anil did a nice job building and publishing a fun project: a DIY Touch ID-like fingerprint sensor that can unlock your Mac, called Dashboard Touch.

Link: Diddit — A simple, shareable logbook for iPhone I’ll always be a sucker for great software tools that help people get things done together.

Six months ago, life threw me for a loop and I dropped everything.

Link: Forevergreen — Academy Award®–Nominated Animated Short Film | Now Streaming for a Limited Time This 13-minute animated short film Forevergreen is delightful food for the soul.

Link: 3D Printed Whistles I got a 3D printer for fun and making stuff and now it’s my whole personality.

Gina Trapani The most common piece of personal finance advice out there is to “know your net worth”—the number that represents your assets minus your liabilities.

I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won’t have to die.

January 1st may be an arbitrary Gregorian boundary condition, but I love an annual moment to take stock and plan change.

Link: AI CEO (via) AI CEO generates corporate executive thought leadership at the push of a button.

Gina Trapani Happy New Year!

Netflix What do you like, and why do you like it?

Link: Our interfaces have lost their senses Digital tech has flattened our experience of the world to text under a glass touchscreen, writes Amelia Wattenberger in a beautifully-illustrated essay.

Link: The Art of KPop Demon Hunters Netflix released 142 gorgeous pages of digital art and behind-the-scenes stories about the making of KPop Demon Hunters, its most-watched film of all time.

Link: How to Fix a Typewriter and Your Life (via) I can’t get this lovely second-half story out of my head: Paul Lundy, a man in his mid-50s, left his lucrative and unfulfilling corporate career behind to repair typewriters.

Be bored.

Gina Trapani Last weekend’s Black Friday deals lured me to my local computer superstore, where I picked up a bunch of parts, went home, unboxed them all, plugged them into one another, pressed the power button, and crossed my fingers.