Dominik Mayer · Products, Asia, Productivity

James Clear in his 3-2-1 newsletter: Time spent working hard is often better spent identifying where the bottleneck is located.

Leadership is, by definition, leading people away from where they already are. –– Tim Urban

Another hilarious article from VnExpress.

Incorporated product and process management consultancy Mitado.

When all is said and done, much more is said than done. –– Dave Cutler

As part of NPR’s parenting series #HowToRaiseAHuman Michaeleen Doucleff visited a Maya village in Yucatán where even the youngest kids take great joy and pride in helping out in the house.

Basecamp in Getting Real: Don’t hire people.

In case you’re not following Vietnam’s Coronavirus success story you might not be aware of “Patient 91”, a British Vietnam Airlines pilot that was the most severe Corona patient in the country.

An American college professor asked Vietnamese-American student Phuc Bui Diem Nguyen to change her name: Could you Anglicize your name.

The Max Planck Society: Their study has revealed that languages with a wide range of tone pitches are more prevalent in regions with high humidity levels.

The American Management Association published an excerpt from William A.

Kevin Kelly: It’s my birthday.

Stephen Anderson and Karl Fast in Figure It Out: Getting from Information to Understanding: All cultures start with the ability to distinguish dark things from light things.

Christopher Balding writing about China: Second, better negotiation or communication will have little to no impact on Chinese government policy.

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. –– James Baldwin

Ben Taub of The New Yorker followed Victor Vescovo who managed to dive to the deepest point of every ocean: “Patrick retrieves a piece of equipment from the deepest point on earth, and it’s just me, going, ‘Yay, congratulations, Patrick.’

In case you’re ever hit by another motorbike and break your tibial plateau, that’s what they’re gonna do.

Knowledge is the compound interest of curiosity. –– James Clear

German singer-songwriter Reinhard Mey playing an open air concert in his garden, singing Ich bring dich durch die Nacht (I’ll get you through the night) Mein Apfelbäumchen (My little apple tree) and Viertel vor sieben (A quarter to seven).

d’strict specializes in “designing, making, and delivering breathtaking visual content on Digital Out of Home”: Our first case of IP licensing, ‘WAVE’ with anamorphic illusion has been successfully revealed on a magnificent DOOH of COEX K-POP SQUARE, the…

Former Apple engineer David Shayer explains on TidBITS why he trusts Apple’s new exposure notification.

Captain Picard and his crew stand in the transporter room and actor Patrick Stewart mixes up the terms: Engage!

The Pisano blog explaining the Sean Ellis Test: Sean Ellis test was formed thanks to the experiences gained during the consultation period, and in a very short time, it became a standard throughout the industry.

First Round Review follows Credit Karma’s former Chief Product Officer Nikhyl Singhal.

Wired: Anthony Daniels, who most famously portrays C-3PO in the Star Wars series of films, sits down with WIRED to discuss, in detail, the variety of costumes he has worn while filming Star Wars.

Jörg Blech, writing for Der Spiegel: There are up to a billion viruses in our intestines alone – per gram of content.

Phu My Hung is one of my favorite places in Saigon.

ThisWebsiteWillSelfdestruct.com: Hi, I’m a website.

Chuck Frey on The Sweet Setup: Like many things in business, creativity responds well to a process — one that guides you along the path of birthing, nurturing and implementing game-changing ideas.

Michael Crichton in his talk Why Speculate?

Sinosplice founder John Pasden: Should learners of Chinese have a Chinese name?

Viet Tuan for VnExpress International: Vietnam is urging citizens to marry before 30 and bear children early to maintain an ideal replacement fertility rate. […] The decision calls for people to marry before they are 30 and bear children early.

Each Arai helmet is hand-crafted.

Damien Newman created a squiggle to symbolizes the design process from research on the left via concept and prototyping in the middle to the final design on the right.

The person who asks is a fool for five minutes, but the person who does not ask remains a fool forever. –– Georg Christoph Lichtenberg?

Apple: Follow hitmaking, Grammy-nominated songwriter and music producer Oak Felder as he creates a new song.

Paul Graham in a 2008 essay: Great cities attract ambitious people.

Robyn Griggs Lawrence, author of Simply Imperfect: Revisiting the Wabi-Sabi House: According to Japanese legend, a young man named Sen no Rikyu sought to learn the elaborate set of customs known as the Way of Tea.

Craig Mod: I love fast software.

New York bartender Jeff Solomon shows how to mix every cocktail.

Former Secret Service Agent Jonathan Wackrow, now managing director at Teneo Risk, explains how the Service protects the President and other VIPs.

New lyrics for a new time.

35 years ago Gert Steinbäcker wrote this hymn of all expats (my translation): Last summer was pretty nice I was lying at some bay The sun like fire on my skin You smell the water and nothing’s loud Some place in Greece Loads of white sand On my back just…

For Sports Illustrated Emma Baccellieri portraits Jim Bintliff, the sole mud supplier for major league baseball.

Former Chief of Disguise for the CIA, Jonna Mendez, explains how disguises are used in the CIA, and what aspects to the deception make for an effective disguise.

“We wanted to invite U.S. media to come ask any questions on behalf of American customers,” said Catherine Chen, Huawei’s corporate senior vice president and director of the board.

Ogilvy 12th Floor created two digital billboards for British Airways: These specific signs were located between the view of people on the street and the flight paths of planes coming and going from Heathrow Airport.

Emmy-Award winning actor Jeffrey Wright narrates the story of Nearest Green.

German artists Wolfgang Aichner and Thomas Huber went on a 4-week art performance, carrying an oversized pen painting a virtual rectangle over the scenic landscape of three US states.

Saigoneer editor-in-chief Michael Tatarski explains why the water of the Mekong is brown: “If in the future all of the planned Mekong River dams are built, 96% of sediment will be trapped, while 50% is already trapped by the cascade dams in China,” he add…