Online Classes to Build Your Dream Career
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With over 3 million members and more than 18,000 classes, Skillshare is basically the Netflix for online learning. Learn everything from email marketing and mobile photography to graphic design and web development, and so much more. The first 100 Offscreen readers can get 2 months for only $0.99 by clicking here.
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Discover new podcasts through friends
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A guy I used to work with at SoundCloud is behind this great podcast app. Unlike similar apps, it has a social element built in, so you can see which podcasts are most popular, and which ones your friends have listened to and 'liked’. It’s a great way to find new things to listen to.
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Track your phone use, change your habits
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Like seemingly everyone else, I’m trying to spend less time on my phone. Moment shows you data on your phone usage each day – how many minutes you spend on each app, for instance – which usually makes me feel incredibly depressed, and vow never to open Instagram again.
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A fun way to remember to water your plants
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I didn't think I needed an app to remind me to water my plants either. But this app is super fun, super cute, and prompts you to take ‘plant selfies’ after each watering so you can track the growth of your little green friends. 🌿
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Keep track of your subscriptions
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It’s hard to keep track of all my subscriptions – various magazines, Spotify, Netflix, website domains, apps, etc. Bobby is here to help: a beautiful iOS app for tracking your recurring payments and fixed costs each month. It’s really useful, but also a little sad to see how those subscriptions add up.
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A place for your screen and accessories
This screen riser elevates my screen from the desk, holds my pens and a cup of tea, and has a little space underneath to hide my computer away. Better still, it’s super cheap, well built, and really pretty.
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Mouldable glue
If you mixed playdough with superglue, you’d end up with Sugru. (Don’t actually try this.) It’s a genius substance that you can use to fix almost everything – cables, mugs, cameras. I made a nifty dinosaur door handle with it.
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Mini USB-C adapters
I was about to spend a small fortune on a whizzy USB-C multi adaptor to plug things into my new MacBook Pro. Then I found these super cheap connectors on Amazon. The build quality is solid and they’re cheap enough to leave in different places so that you’re never without an adapter.
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If It’s Important, Learn It Repeatedly
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Like the author of this piece, I read Cal Newport’s ‘Deep Work’ and declared it one of my favourite books of the year. Then I forgot everything on its pages and never read it again. This piece demonstrates the importance of reading things repeatedly.
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From inboxing to thought showers: how business bullshit took over
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The tech world is full of nonsense and jargon. But it’s not just tech. This piece looks at the rise of ‘business bullshit’. It's insightful as well as hilarious.
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Austin Kleon is one of my favourite people writing about creativity, tech and the arts. In this podcast episode of Hurry Slowly, he explains how he moves between the analogue and tech worlds in his work, and goes into some incredible detail on pencils and notebooks.
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Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.
– W. H. Auden
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