Occasional links - 13.08.2022
Hello,
How are you doing? I've had the pleasure of dog and cat sitting in Hove this week and have had a lot of swims as has my phone, unfortunately, but now looking forward to getting home and giving those I love a good squeeze. Perhaps you're on holiday and I'm about to receive your out-of-office email, or maybe you're just shading yourself from the sun at home. Either way, I hope you enjoy the below ten links.
Daisy Boo Biscuit Potter today departed for the great litter tray in the sky, aged 18
An amusing story of a life well lived and some interesting 'lifestyle choices'.
How are you doing? I've had the pleasure of dog and cat sitting in Hove this week and have had a lot of swims as has my phone, unfortunately, but now looking forward to getting home and giving those I love a good squeeze. Perhaps you're on holiday and I'm about to receive your out-of-office email, or maybe you're just shading yourself from the sun at home. Either way, I hope you enjoy the below ten links.
Daisy Boo Biscuit Potter today departed for the great litter tray in the sky, aged 18
An amusing story of a life well lived and some interesting 'lifestyle choices'.
Daisy was voted ‘objectively worst cat in the world’ 3 years running, and her hobbies included vomiting and ignoring us.
I was howling with laughter at this, as well as sad of course. The link is a Twitter thread but neatly collated into one page for you because I'm nice like that.
Positive feedback: the science of criticism that actually works
A really interesting look at feedback and how to do it and why it's so difficult to receive. A long article but well worth your time. The article if from the FT and their great Daily Edit app but now behind a paywall. This link should be readable though. I need to read this again too and absorb more of the article.
A plan is not a strategy
Yes, I still like to read up on improving thinking about how we work as a business and I found this really helpful. It's less than 10 mins long and easily digestible.
A beautiful video about one boy and his love for corn
That's it. Just watch it.
The dog that learned to play connect four
But didn't learn sportsmanship... and another that wants her pups to play.
A Lego submarine with depth control
Very clever! Original source.
Fantastic set of comparative plans of Wren churches
That's it. That's the link.
The Capitalist Origins of #Manifestation
Everything always does seem to come back to this sadly. I found this fascinating though!
Black arrow the rocket
An amazing story of British engineering that almost didn't go anywhere. A slightly longer version of the story can be found here.
Something I didn’t fully realise until I saw this map just now
Positive feedback: the science of criticism that actually works
A really interesting look at feedback and how to do it and why it's so difficult to receive. A long article but well worth your time. The article if from the FT and their great Daily Edit app but now behind a paywall. This link should be readable though. I need to read this again too and absorb more of the article.
A plan is not a strategy
Yes, I still like to read up on improving thinking about how we work as a business and I found this really helpful. It's less than 10 mins long and easily digestible.
A beautiful video about one boy and his love for corn
That's it. Just watch it.
The dog that learned to play connect four
But didn't learn sportsmanship... and another that wants her pups to play.
A Lego submarine with depth control
Very clever! Original source.
Fantastic set of comparative plans of Wren churches
That's it. That's the link.
The Capitalist Origins of #Manifestation
Everything always does seem to come back to this sadly. I found this fascinating though!
Black arrow the rocket
An amazing story of British engineering that almost didn't go anywhere. A slightly longer version of the story can be found here.
Something I didn’t fully realise until I saw this map just now
is that the Green Belt doesn’t include most of the countryside - it’s actually almost laser-focused on strangling our most important cities.
Something to think about in terms of ur UK land use. Spoiler: we haven't built over all the green bits.
And that's all for this week.
Love as always,
Andy x
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Love as always,
Andy x
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