Link: Awesome Mental Health
I think the site description says it all: “A curated list of awesome articles, websites and resources about mental health in the software industry.”
Just skimming through the titles, it seems to have a lot of very interesting articles concerning mental health.
A collection of links to interesting and helpful articles I've found around the web...
Speedhunters has a great post featuring the iconic Ferrari F40. If you're a fan of the F40, you'll love the numerous great looking photos in that post. If you're a fan of cars in general, you'll find plenty to like on their website.
Link: Always Meet Your Heroes
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As adults, we spend a lot of time talking about all of the things that we have to do.
You have to wake up early for work. You have to make another sales call for your business. You have to work out today. You have to write an article. You have to make dinner for your family. You have to go to your son’s game.
Now, imagine changing just one word in the sentences above.
You don’t “have” to. You “get” to.
Wow! A very simple thing to practice everyday, but the way your perspective changes is huge.
One of the things I get lazy on is washing my son's milk bottles. If I apply this lesson to that scenario, I would go from, “I have to wash milk bottles tonight”, to, “I get to wash milk bottles tonight”. Okay well it still sounds like work, but if I dig deeper, getting to wash bottles means:
Now it doesn't like too much work at all. All with the change of a single word.
Source: How to Be Thankful For Your Life by Changing Just One Word
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There are a few fronts on which our attention is being assaulted. First off, there’s just a massive surplus of stuff to pay attention to. And the more crap there is to pay attention to, the more difficult it is to choose what to focus on—not to mention stay focused on it!
So, the first and most important goal of an attention diet should be to consciously limit the number of distractions we’re exposed to. Just as the first step of a nutritional diet is to consume less food, the first step of an attention diet is to consume less information. – Mark Manson
Digital Minimalism is making it's way around the web and I like Mark Manson's take on it. I think calling it The Attention Diet is also a clever idea. If you have not read Cal Newport's Digital Minimalism book, this post can serve as some kind of head start to cutting out digital distractions and taking back your attention.
The suggestion there that you need an ethicist, it suggests at least to me that they're concerned about the addictiveness of the products. In fact, Tristan himself has written about that, and that's exactly what he says. He suggests that there should be, in the design world, a Hippocratic oath — just as in medicine doctors should “do no harm,” he believes the same should be true of designers of these kinds of platforms; that people who design tech, people who design social media platforms, should be forced to obey the same rules — do no harm.
Link: 'Irresistible' By Design: It's No Accident You Can't Stop Looking At The Screen
I like this idea, a lot. The problem is I don't think the tech industry will adopt it. Not unless the industry moves away from making money using an ad-based model.
Not exactly sure how I ended up on this site, I was reading something about canned tuna, but anyway the article and the calculator might be useful to other people. I'll leave this here so I don't forget as well.
By the way I am a big fan of eating canned tuna, I ate a lot when I was a kid. I was oblivious to the effects and the amounts of mercury canned tuna had though. This changes things.
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