The new Bonobo album is shaping up to be massive!
Good snack from InVision.
Inspirational video from Strava.
Interesting new font service. Going to give it a try.
Very userful Sketch plugin. Especially if you work with tables and/or rows of data. Remember that you can exclude text from symbos.
Highlights: Autobiography of a Yogi
The Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda took me a very long time to read. Almost four months to be more specific. I read the book in the morning while drinking my smoothie. At times I was almost ready to quit reading it but I suffered through. The stories were so unbeleavable that, sometimes, the book reads more like fiction than fact. Incidents of dead gurus materializing out of thin air, spontaneous healing of deadly diseases or masters bringing people from dead using only tools such as mineral bracelets didn’t really inspire me. I guess I expected more after hearing that Steve Jobs read this book every year. However, there were some good chapters and thoughtful passages. Here are a few that resonated with me:
Something to keep in mind when traversing the societal ladders:
Some people try to be tall by cutting off the heads of others!
Much of our suffering comes from our expectations of others:
Wrath springs only from thwarted desires. I do not expect anything from others, so their actions cannot be in opposition to wishes of mine. I would not use you for my own ends; I am happy only in your own true happiness.
Science is a story humans tell themselves. The laws of the cosmos remain true, independent of those stories:
It is never a question of belief; the only scientific attitude one can take on any subject is whether it is true. The law of gravitation worked as efficiently before Newton as after him. The cosmos would be fairly chaotic if its laws could not operate without the sanction of human belief.
A strong case for quieting the mind through yoga and/or meditation:
Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevent all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nature of Spirit. Yoga cannot know a barrier of East and West any more than does the healing and equitable light of the sun. So long as man possesses a mind with its restless thoughts, so long will there be a universal need for yoga or control.
On the impermanence of material things:
Though the human race and its works disappear tracelessly by time or bomb, the sun does not falter in its course; the stars keep their invariable vigil.
The Buddha said that attachment is the root of suffering:
Imagine the happy life of one unattached to the material world; free of the clothing problem; free of food craving, never begging, never touching cooked food except on alternate days, never carrying a begging bowl; free of all money entanglements, never handling money, never storing things away, always trusting in God; free of transportation worries, never riding in vehicles, but always walking on the banks of the sacred rivers; never remaining in one place longer than a week in order to avoid any growth of attachment.
For a list of the books I am and have been reading see my profile on Goodreads.
Simply beautiful!
The things that you build in the next decade are going to cost people, likely millions of people, maybe a billion people depending on the networks where you hitch your respective wagons, they are going to cost a lot of people a lot of time. Trillions of heartbeats spent in interaction.
Link pack: Ambient Squats
I had this post planned for last Friday but didn’t find the time to write it. That’s why I’m changing the name of the Friday Links simply to Link pack. That means I can post a link pack whenever I feel like it. What a time to be alive!
Why Skala won’t have artboards
Interesting post from Marc Edwards about the upcoming user interface design software Skala and why it won’t have artobards. Excited to see what they come up with.
Density
File this under helpful. A cool little app that helps designers calculate the dimensions for multiple screen sizes.
Ryan Ford Youtube Videos
If you are getting into movement (and or parkour) Ryan Ford’s Youtube channel is a good start. Instructional videos on some isolated movement patterns for strength, agility and good technique.
Noizio
Noizio is a free ambient sound equalizer that lives in your menubar. Using this can really get you into your flow. Also great for meditation.
The benefits of outdoor training
Awesome transcript by Antranik of Rafe Kelley’s interview on the Well Rounded Athlete podcast. Rafe talks about movement, outdoor training and the power of play.
Look and feel and feel
This short article by Jason Fried struck a chord with me. Couple this article with Leo Babauta’s Your Internet Habits Create Your Reality and then take a look at how your internet habits shape the way you feel.
The myth of high protein diets
Dean Ornish talks about how a diet high in animal proteins can cause a number of serious health problems and how what’s good for you is also good for the planet. (Don’t forget the animals!)
The 30 day primal squat challenge
Jonathan Mead is challenging us to squat every day, for the next 30 days. I’m in!
The 2015 top r/Fantasy novels of all time
Poll results from Reddit. Great list. I have some reading to do once I’ve finished Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrel which is number 26 on the list.
Really helpful documentation of Theron’s iOS design setup. The gist of it: Design at @1x for the iPhone 6.
Good article on Photoshop CC 2014 Linked Smart Objects and Layer Comps. Having Linked Smart Objects for large projects can save countless of hours and really help with inconsistency problems.
