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Interesting. I'll check out some more information about it.

I like overall quality of iOS but I still prefer Android though, you can do all sort of weird things iOS never allow. Just next time I'll choose whatever phones that gives me vanilla Android(as much as possible) Pure android is clean and work great, until vendor try to 'enhance' their phone with their apps and stuff.

It maybe true, anyway, those young people, full of energy and party-lover is virus's best carrier though, locking in help prevents the spread to others whose vulnerable.

Ultimately, no one knows what the best strategy is, maybe the 'Swedish approach' maybe right, or not...,time will tell.

Problem is lately many banking app required you to use non-root phone, at least in my country. There used to be workaround, but it is not work anymore.

I have Redmi phone and I hates it as soon as I found that there is ads in their rom. It's so disappointing. I mean, other Chinese brand have their own crapware yes, but ads?

I then flash my phone to pure Pixel rom and never been happier, until the bank app incident happened. So I have to use their original rom for now until I get a new phone.

No matter how rave the Mi phone review be, or how it is great 'bang for the bucks' brand, I will never touch their phone again.

Apparently, this kinda works in Thai language too(and I think other language also) The search keyword is "เสื้อไม่มีแถบ" which is literally translated as 'Shirt without stripes'. It's common words to speak, unlike 'without' in English.

The result, of course, show shirt with some kind of stripe, albeit not prominent like the English one.

It’s just that, a trend. It comes and will go eventually, and new trend arise, like it always did in the past.

Liero & Soldat. What a memory. Funny how little pixel sandbox game(couple with extremely violent imagination) can keep us entertain for hours back then.

It certainly need some amount of ego to be The leader of the pack, or do something different. The right amount create unique weirdo-creative genius nerd, the wrong amount create a jerk. It’s depends on your personality type as well, you can’t just suddenly want to be creative nerd and just become one. I mean, technically you can, skill and knowledge can be learn, but it will not be the same. Some people just born to be......ok now that’s borderline woo woo Lmao.

Same old desk and monitor, but I decide to invest in buying something that support my WFH life: good chair.

I bought the midrange 'Think' chair from Steelcase, and even it's not the top of the line and has compromised features, the quality and comfort is miles ahead of my old cheap $50 office chair. My butt just heal itself just sitting on it Imao. It just worth every penny. That aside, no chair can replace the need to exercise and strengthen your body regularly(especially lower back and glute muscle if you sit all day)

I think the scale of global impact is different. I’m now turn into a person who religiously wash my hand, and care about hygiene and stuff much, much more often than before, all thanks to this COVID-19.

Same as with learning anything I guess. Deliberate learning (or specify what part you want to learn) is much more effective than learning broadly without any aim or specific goals in mind.

> That's not literally the only thing you could do. You could quit.

Well, that's one big choice to make haha.

and here I am, at my newly renovate office with gasp open plan. We have some cliché things like table tennis desk, rock climbing space(that no one have a time to climb, of course) and garden plot with fresh vegetable(just for show off at new office opening day), that HR staff told us that employee can plant their own after that(good luck with that) Everything about it screams pretentious and dumb.

What's better, we have a meeting room that decorate like a kitchen, with no door and the wall that is not rise to the ceiling, if you know what I mean. The noise level comes from that 'meeting room' is just unbearable. The worst meeting room design I've seen in my life.

The only thing I can do is put on my trusty noise-cancelling headphones, thanks god for this miraculous technology in this noisy world.

From my personal experience as illustrator, I found the Apple pencil design and weight is much better for drawing than the surface pen with the tip, and yes, what I hold in my hand effect how I draw significantly.

Also, I found that iOS is just built for touch from the group up, unlike Windows, and when combined with well-designed app like Procreate, it just made every interaction with the screen with your hand and Pencil when you drawing so smooth and natural. It's just mind blown for us who draw for living. It just do one thing we want really, really well. Before iPad and Apple Pencil comes, the closest thing to draw directly on screen is the uber-expensive Wacom Cintiq, which mostly used by studio and serious professional rather than individual.

Windows and Photoshop on touch device is quite usable for drawing. I'd say, it is much better than in the past. But once in a while you'll end up running into some software quirk and lagging experience, miniscule menu to click on, some part of software that didn't design for touch, etc., not to mention that Photoshop is ultra-ultra bloated software. It never natural to work on it.

Anyway, I understand why people that's not into the art field didn't see the use of iPad much. It's still a big iPhone to many people, and yes, its file manager and multitasking is garbage.

This is also important. Some type of work need to have certain kind of plan of 'What's Next'. Even a simple checklist will do. Maybe some kind of simple month/week plan.

Some may argue that it may leads to overplanning, but I found that randomly do something everyday just for the sake of doing it but didn't move into the direction of your goal made you felt empty in the long run, because all those time you've spent lead to nothing worthwhile.

For me, it's all about focus. The internet brings you anything but focus. Our generation have every learning capabilities except focused mind and focus is the important key to learn anything substantially. Yet our attention are fragmented, shattered, and being manipulated everyday by the internet and social media.

The nature of internet is always distracting. Even while you are reading something, you unconsciously thinking about other thing you might do, in a most frictionless way possible -- just a click away. The book, reading in quiet environment, cut that distraction off completely (I mean, technically you can think about hundreds of thing too, but it's not just a click, tap or swipe away)

I used to read tons of article I save in my Pocket app all day, which itself miles better than junk content on social media of course, but even then, at the end of the day I cannot tell myself what I really learn at all — everything feels, rushed, shallow, distracted. I don't know, I found myself never have real 'focus' when I read online, even what I read is good.

Back to your question, IMO, one good books worth more than hundreds of (sometimes marketing-induced) online articles out there. Also, those 'cutting edge' trend is just that, a 'trend'. Thing that just got popular for whatever reason at certain point of time. It comes and goes quickly than you will ever remember. Most trend dies away after a short while and you don't missing anything at all my friend. If that trend is actually good or important, then you'll see it in one way or another anyway, when all the dust settle — the same with all the "news" out there. You don't have to know them at all and still perfectly fine.

On the contrary, good book with good content always stand the test of time. New doesn't always mean good and old doesn't always mean outdated, especially things about how human think about something. You can still learn a lot from wisdom in the past, that doesn't existed in today's fragmented, always-on environment.

That's what creative agency do. Create storytelling and meaning of what and why they do something the hard way. It's why there is still some company (e.g. Colossal Media) that hand-paint advertising on the building wall and not just easily print it on vinyl. It gives meaning to their creation - also differentiate them from the others.

In practical sense, yes, you can do it really fast, easy and cheap with any 3D software nowadays in just 2 days(but where's the fun in that?:) IMO, easily created things are also easily forgettable.

Another example is Apple and some of their recent desktop/iPhone wallpaper. It seems like CG, but those are real piece of art, made by hand, and photographed. Google's Material design concept, with real light and shadow, comes to mind too. Seems overkill?, yes, but it did has story behind it and not cheaply made in 2 hours with Adobe illustrator. The nonsense, abstract and intangibility part of it is what differentiate the brand. You will never see utilitarian brand like Amazon do something like this.

I can think of example in other field: Art. Some people just great at using/picking color. They just pick the color they want quickly and paint without thinking about perfect harmony color scheme theory at all, yet their art always result in great color combination.

Just ask them why they pick that certain color and you won't find rational behind it. They just...did, their hand just move to that color, paint it, and it looks good—the results of tons of practices over the years. Not to mention some artist didn't even have proper art education, not to mention art theory. Why and how it happened to be the same combination as in the color harmony theory is surely hard to explain.

Overthinking. The introverts' nightmare. :(

I’m that ‘deadline bring me creative juice’ type of person. I’d say it kind of work to certain degree from my experience — good solution popup out of nowhere, maybe because like you said, I am very focused on that work alone, and nothing else.

It obviously doesn’t sustainable though, both your work and health. It get a job done, but I know that it lack finesse quality, also all that stress definitely shorten my lifespan.

"No plan. No career goal. Just free fall hacking"

Hell yeah. Your word sums up the 'play' spirit we all used to have when we were young (that somehow got lost when we entering adulthood)

For me, the key to not burnout (fast) is to have separate mindset for hobby and work.

Say, my hobby will not relate in anyway to my work (that's quite obvious) but also not about personal development, nor about maximizing my "potential", nor about peer pressure, nor a way to make passive income or how it'll help me in my life in the future, because that'll be the best recipe for burnout. Those business/self development jargon words can stay within 'work' realm. Your hobby can have those features of course, if it comes naturally, but I will not put it as priority as to WHY I choose something as my hobby.

Hobby for me is purely hobby. Things I can lose myself into and not worry about ANYTHING ELSE except things in front of me.

P.S. My day job is high-precision graphic designer, my hobby is clay sculpting. There's something calming and relaxing about its low-pace nature — unlike digital hobby though.

Damn, and it was written in 1932.

Having lunch together is the most overlooked things ever in team building aspect.

It sounds so insignificant, so silly, but it is the natural way to build camaraderie between team member. People lower their guard, and have nothing to 'prove', unlike...uh, work.

Sound like the sanest and sustainable way dealing with information overload. I'll give it a try, Thanks. :)

Funnily the another me deep inside somehow agree with you lol. I even think about it while archiving 'Do I really need it in the future?'

However as a neat freak, archiving things, put it out of sight, gives me a bit peace of mind. With bookmark, I still see its accumulated through time and always feel the need to do something about it, even it not necessary.

Maybe one day I will realize and decide that all the thing I save is just nonsense and throw everything away. One day...:)

I recently spring clean my bookmark to bare essentials, because I found that I rarely use them anymore. If I want to read something, I save it to Pocket. RSS+Feedly for sites that I want to follow. For site that I want to keep for historical purpose, I save the url and screenshot in Google Keep, label it, archive and forget, without cluttering the bookmark.

Actually, I also use this method (keep-archive) in Google Keep for keeping other site too (the 'archive' button is so satisfying to use. It lifts the burden to manage bookmark out of your head, and I know the information is there, in my Google Keep, if I want to see it again (Note: I don't)

For sites I use frequently, I put it in new tab screen using chrome extension called Toby. If it start to accumulate, then I review it, discard it, or save it in specific label in Google keep.

IINA is simply great. It's video player that just work. The same experience when I use PotPlayer on Windows.

My experience with VLC never good. Even the modern version. It somehow feels...clunky? Some random error randomly happened. As the matter of fact, I just download the latest version and test it about 5 minutes ago on my iMac, open some video, and BAM, some weird glitch happened on my screen (like graphic card error) It disappear when I quit it though.

Yet everyone, every tech author always recommended it. Maybe I'm just unlucky? :/

Well, that’s the point: You ‘expected’ your mind to be ‘calm’, and when your mind don’t do it what you want, you frustrated. Meditation shouldn’t be about ‘forcing’ your mind to be calm, but to let it calm, naturally. Like the muddy water in the glass, when you left it still enough, the silt will go the bottom, and the water’s clear.

What you might do instead, other than focus your mind in your body somewhere(or your breathe) is just ‘observe’ your mind as it is, like when you observe other people. Is your mind confusing?, can’t stop thinking?, fine, be whatever it want. Is your mind calm?, that’s fine, too, but don’t expect it to be calm forever, because it won’t, and that’s also fine. You don’t judge it, you don’t expect what you want to feels because you heard other people said that. You just observe it with non-judgemental, neutral feeling.

In fact, don’t even care about how long you’ve practice it, because that also raise the expectation ‘Why did my mind is not calm even after months+ of practice?’ and it’ll pressure you to force your mind to calm even more. Some day you feel good, some day you feel sleepy, some day you confusing, and that’s ok

— you just did it, everyday.

My mentor said that your mind is like growing a tree, you can’t force it to grow into giant tree instantly. You just water it, everyday. The change is not even noticeable, but after awhile when you look back, you’ll see how much the plant growth.

The peaceful feeling will come naturally when your mind is ready enough.

Good luck mate!

I like the classic yellow blob design. It's undeniably neutral regardless of race, age or gender. Everyone used it until, well, one day someone told us that we should triggered by it.

When you start diversifying, it never ends because you cannot include everyone and someone always, always feel left out. At least Facebook emoji is still the yellow blob though. :)

I think this, in some way, a common cycle for things. When thing start to get uniform, we tends to break it apart, and when things began to spin out of control, we try to unify it again.

and the cycle continues...