Florence Nightingale; Skiff; Deadlines; 35
Florence Nightingale; Skiff; Deadlines; 35
Vol 3, Issue 3
🖥️ Workspace called Skiff
I stumbled across Skiff, an open-source, privacy-friendly substitute for Google Workspace. Skiff offers Gmail, Calendar, Drive, and Docs alternatives. Skiff Pages aspires to be a Doca/Slite clone. The other three tools have the expected features (with no innovations like Hey). I am using it for the next three months to see if it could replace my present email.
📚 The Odd Book of Baby Names
`The Odd Book of Baby Names` by Anees Salim is a beautifully written fiction with non-linear narration and captivating details. The book is told via eight characters, allowing the reader to picture an entire city and characters in his mind, just like the book's cover. In Anees Salim's books, I always feel that there is some Malayalee-specific storytelling hidden from the universal story.
📜 Visual Design Techniques
Every second spent on Anthony Hobday's Visual Design Techniques will make you a better designer and person, regardless of whether you are a graphic designer. You should pay particular attention to this if you are a manager/decision-maker.
📈 Florence Nightingale & Data Visualisation
“ For instance, Nightingale brilliantly framed army mortality by contrasting it with civilian mortality. She showed how, for example, peacetime soldiers living in army barracks died at higher rates than civilian men of similar ages. Her graphics made it impossible to deny the realities represented by the data: army administration needed dramatic reform.”
📽️ Mahaveeryar
Nivin Pauly's film with Abrid Shine is a bold experiment that deals with law, justice, power, idols, and how it relates to the time. The lack of over-explanation and cliches made it an excellent craft. Most of the actors did a great job, but Lalu Alex - Vijay Menon's performance as men who believes in the law and justice but is anchored to their own time deserves special recognition. (Available on SunNXT)
&That
Sreejith Divakaran writes an interesting article on Indian movies and Hindutwa agendas.
Anoopkbhat curates a Twitter thread on Indian Pen & Ink Artists with work sample drawings.
Lucas F. Costa diagnoses the problem with the concept of Deadlines and recommends an alternative worth considering.
LitHub lists The 103 Best Book Covers of 2022 according to Book Cover Designers.
Finally, I turned 35 yesterday. That’s 420 months of living! F&$#!
This is Hiran Venugopalan, a product designer from India. As well, I offer 1:1 coaching to designers and teams in the areas of career growth, problem-solving, and productivity.
I messed up the newsletter by NOT adding hyperlinks to the '&that' part! My bad!