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As I'm waiting to hear from my printer about the delivery of issue 19 to my fulfilment company in Berlin, I'm preparing the launch newsletter and getting the website ready for the sale of the newest issue. (Okay, I'm also enjoying a bit of downtime in the German countryside which welcomed me with particularly warm spring weather. 🙂)

Enjoy this week's issue of the Dispatch. Hopefully next week I have a new issue to present here. 🤞 – Kai

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Digital

Switchboard

A Slack for audio

Switchboard is a bit like Slack, but completely audio based. Instead of typing, you're communicating with colleagues and friends through your headphones and are able to activate or mute conversations by voice. An interesting new concept for team communication.

What is my day rate?

Find out how much to charge

This handy little calculator asks you how much you'd like to earn annually and then makes realistic calculations about how much you need to charge hourly to achieve that goal.

Timing

App-based auto-time-tracking

‘Timing observes how you use your Mac and categorises your activities. You see how you spent your time and how productive you were, with a timeline that shows when you did what. It even automatically recognises blocks of time that belong together.’

Tangible

Touchy/Feely

A design book that explores emotional ergonomics

Touchy/Feely is a collection of illustrations and associated feelings that are supposed to help foster empathy for human-centered, inclusive design.

Strut & Fibre

High-quality business cards

Every now and then, someone emails me to ask for printer recommendations to get their business cards printed. I actually don't have any business cards for myself right now (but I used Moo in the past). If you're looking for a quality alternative, check out Strut & Fibre: either use their templates or upload your own design.

Perusal

Read

12 Things Everyone Should Understand About Tech

Yet another strong post by Anil Dash that has been making the rounds on Twitter lately. And for a reason: it's good. You should read it.

Watch

The Darkside of Data

Dave Hakkens, creator of the amazing Precious Plastic project, with a great introductory video about why data (consumption and creation) can be problematic. I bookmarked this video to send to people who say 'I have nothing the hide' in response to the discussion around privacy and sharing data. 

Read

Facebook’s not-mea-culpa

I'm a subscriber and fan of Quartz' daily newsletter. In their recent weekend edition, they ask whether Zuckerberg is simply too idealistic and forgiving of failures to stay at the helm of Facebook.

Quote

Another flaw in human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

– Kurt Vonnegut

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