Together & January Recap
An occasional newsletter as a deep dive into the minds, habits, obsessions, affairs, and influences of our friends and fam.
By popular demand! A recap of this months ideas/articles/links/music/podcasts/movies/vibes as shared on the slack channels (in no particular order):
🛡️ Shields
An on-chain heraldic design system developed by Area Technology. Each Shield is composed and built by the holder of a Shield Badge. All components are stored as SVG code on Ethereum.
🕴️ We all knew this obviously before, but monochrome is all about mood, mystery and perfectly cut clothes: Why I wear black.
🧥 BOLO Exchange. London-based streetwear brand Corteiz sent social media into an absolute frenzy over the weekend after shutting down the city with its ‘BOLO Exchange’. So damn good!
👝 Smartpods are prefab personal offices (or whatever you want to do in it) to put anywhere from a rooftop to the middle of nowhere.
💾 This 22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage.
🧵“Only 5 to 7 percent of resaleable clothes are sold on resale platforms, leaving an estimated 2.1 trillion dollars worth of garments in landfills.” The Archive Algorithm by Kaleidoscope.
👃 Olfactive Stéréophonique. This amazing object - aka an experimental and revolutionary fragrance diffuser- was designed by Devon Turnbull, founder of artisanal speaker and accessories brand OJAS, and Ben Gorham, Byredo’s founder and creative director.
📖 The Genius of Toni Morrison’s Only Short Story on The New Yorker.
👹 Scott Galloway on Web3 — “Web3 has different-colored hair, but the same DNA as earlier web paradigms, which decentralized services at an unprecedented scale to centralize wealth and influence at an unprecedented scale.” ok ok…
💙 De Blauwe Maandag/Blue Monday (sorry, Dutch only) — The so-called most depressing day of the year needs a cure. A different sound. A hopeful look at the world around us. AKA The second edition of De Blauwe Maandag, filled with columns, reports, art and poems that give a positive and hopeful twist to daily life.
🔃 Two interesting stories on the same topic: Routine Maintenance, ‘Embracing habit in an automated world’, and You Can’t Simply Decide to Be a Different Person on ‘Forming new habits isn’t impossible, but it’s much easier for some people than others.’
🧠 We became big time fans of the Huberman Lab Podcast, discussing neuroscience —how our brain and its connections with the organs of our body control our perceptions, our behaviors, and our health — and tools for measuring and changing how our nervous system works. (also here)
🎱 And 8Ball turned into a podcast too. Highly recommended!
🏃 Solace. Running the Alps in 30 days. A crazy crazy project and insanely good marketing for On Running.
⚖️ We all love Emoji’s. Especially when they scale.
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