Modest Operations | Newsletter Volume 13

Thanks so much to everyone for the great response to last week's newsletter! It sounds like I'm not alone in wanting a better travel logging / recommendation app, but a few people have recommended Yelp and Google Maps, which I'm eager to explore. 

Now, for a bit of housekeeping - as mentioned last week, Sarah and I are headed to Japan & Hong Kong next week as a getaway in between jobs for her. As of now, I'm still planning to send out newsletters while we're away, but I also reserve the right to renege on that if travel gets the better of me. 

We've already received some wonderful recommendations, but are still accepting them if anyone has any!

This Week's Links A list of things I've been reading & thinking about.* "One of the basic assumptions of GTD is that you are dumb—or, rather, that your subconsciousness is quite dumb when it comes to thinking about things you should have done. For example knowing you need to fix your bike before next week, but instead of reminding you when you actually drive by the bicycle shop, it implants an incessant feeling of 'I need to remember… something' in your brain." - GTD in 15 minutes – A Pragmatic Guide to Getting Things Done (Erland Hamberg for Hamberg.no) * "You could drive yourself crazy trying to make sense of Eraserhead. Why is there a woman singing in a radiator? Why is there a half-dead foetus thing that looks like a skinned rabbit? In life, as in Lynch movies, sometimes you have to accept that strange, inexplicable things exist in this world. For humans, as pattern-seeking animals, it’s hard to accept that, sometimes, 2 + 2 = 5. But when we do, when we see the beauty in that? Oh boy." - 10 wellness tips according to David Lynch (Oliver Lunn for Dazed Digital) * "In the new world of networks, the audience model will never again be as valuable, interesting, or relevant. This fundamental truth about networks vs. audiences is the reason I’ve scratched my head over the years about the rise of BuzzFeed, Vice, and other new digital media companies that sought audiences over networks yet still positioned themselves as technology companies." - Dear digital media companies, what did you think was going to happen? (Gina Bianchini for LinkedIn)