Pick Of The Day — 11th February 2024 — A digital detox, lessons, FOM, feminism, negotiation, fun with lists, age, getting noticed, tipping points, a pound-shop Trump, a scrolling ban, banishing plastic, tree wars, a healthy lifestyle, the job centre, the golden mean, and "What A Waste".
This series features some of the best of Medium, and the wider world, rumoured to exist outside of the platform.
Pick of Medium — A digital detox, lessons, FOM, feminism, negotiation, fun with lists, and ageing.
Ripton Green relays the experience of a digital detox on a camping trip, the reflects on the value of reconnecting with friends without the barrier of mobile phones:
Carl Jeffers on lessons learned on Medium:
Here Carl comments on why he has become a Friend of Medium:
Murphy's Law asks if feminism has gone too far?!
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Baris A has advice on successful negotiations:
CarolF promises you a good time with her lists:
Jan Sebastian 🖐👩🦰 explores the subject of age-reversal:
Medium tip of the day — Getting noticed
Kamal O. Touhami has some tips on successful writing:
Outside of Medium: tipping points, a pound-shop Trump, a scrolling ban, banishing plastic, and tree wars.
We may like to think that the results of human-induced climate change will be linear and under control, however there are scenarios where the climate may flip unexpectedly to a new state, with catastrophic consequences. This article explains one such possibility:
A pound-shop Trump is a rising star on the libertarian right of the Conservatives, a "Trump-rump" as the article predicts after the next General Election:
A French village is trying to ban smartphone scrolling in public — only the French?!-
A packaging firm is looking at ways to replace problem plastic:
Madrid is seeing battles between those wanting to remove and save the city's trees, that will be familiar to residents of Sheffield, Torquay and other UK cities that have seen similar conflict:
Life Hack of the day — A healthy lifestyle
Shah Nawaz has tips for a healthy lifestyle:
Quote of the day:
"You fail only if you stop writing." — Ray Bradbury
Joke of the day:
(Health warning — swallow coffee before reading)
"Working at the JobCentre has to be a tense job — knowing that if you get fired, you still have to come in the next day."
National Days:
Super Chicken Wing Day, National Latte Day, International Day of Women and Girl's In Science, National Don't Cry Over Spilled Milk Day, National Get Your Guitar Out Day, National Make A Friend Day, World Marriage Day, Pro Sports Wives Day, Satisfied Staying Single Day, Super Bowl Sunday, National Peppermint Patty Day, National White Shirt Day, World Day of The Sick, National Inventors' Day, National Foundation Day. (All of these are genuine! The link below provides further details, useful for some of the more obscure ones.)
Did you know?
"Kuchisabishii" is Japanese for unconscious eating.
Word of the day: Aurea mediocritas
Aurea mediocritas — This Latin phrase translates as "The Golden Mean", which is the desirable middle between two extremes, one of excess and the other of deficiency. The phrase was used by Rui Alves in a comment on one of my articles about the ideal length of a story on Medium –
Clip of the day: "What A Waste" — Ian Dury
As always, thank you for reading, and enjoy your day.
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