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The mercury’s rising and so are the links. This time we’re colliding pasta fonts, careers, 2002, perpetual stew, and a thank you for PathCamp. More on that last one next. Skip around, read what you want to.
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for a 💯 PathCamp ’23!Thank you to all of you who joined us for PathCamp last week! It was an action-packed day that left my brain full and my heart happy. Speaking for my fellow pathies, we loved exploring big ideas like what AI means for teaching and learning with your curious minds. We’re still talking amongst ourselves about how to use Butter and Mmhmm more.If you missed it, recordings will be up in a few days. We’ll continue to host OpenLabs over the coming months, and PathCamp will be back next year! — Me, Christian, Lydia, Mark, Michelle & PaulCurious links that would have killed the cat⭐️ ☎️ What 27-year-olds did after work in 2002. Like a movie deliberately set in the ‘90s, these plots hinge on not being online. No one got urgent emails at 10pm. No one woke up to DMs from their manager about a project gone awry. “We really would just drive to someone’s house and see what they were doing.” It was a sillier time. ⏳ How the digital workplace broke our brains. Calvin Newport talks about getting out of reactive mode, saying no to Slack, and controlling where your time goes. 🪐 You are thinking of your career trajectory wrong. Most people think of their career like an arc going up in money and responsibility that inevitably tapers off. Instead, Charlie Kindel thinks we should consider a space missions model paired with merit badges (exactly how I think of my jobs). 🗞️ A $2,500 e-ink art piece that displays daily newspapers on your wall. E-ink screens by default have no backlight, a low refresh rate, and can last for weeks on a single battery charge. ⚪️ The whitest paint ever reflects 98% of the sun’s rays. Xiulin Ruan and his students created it at Purdue. It’s part of his personal engineering mission to cool down buildings without warming up the planet. Engineering is amazing! 🍝 Pasta Typeface. Does what it says on the box: These letters look like noodles. Each cap comes in a couple psychedelic versions. I don’t need these carbs right now but also I need these carbs right now! 🔠 Speaking of fonts, Elstob is a variable font for medievalists (and others). It goes from ExtraLight to ExtraBold, you can go from fine print-appropriate to display, and change the contrast. Pretty fun to play around with. 🥘 Perpetual stew in the park. Annie Rauwerda, aka Depths of Wikipedia (my best follow in maybe years?) made soup with anyone who wanted to contribute in a park in Brooklyn. “A perpetual stew, also known as forever soup, hunter's pot or hunter's stew, is a pot into which whatever foodstuffs one can find is placed and cooked. The pot is never or rarely emptied all the way, and ingredients and liquid are replenished as necessary.” 📺 How an untested, cash-strapped TV show about books became an American classic. "Jet-lagged and exhausted, LeVar Burton rallied his youthful energy as he exited customs at New York’s JFK airport and climbed into a waiting limo. He had just traveled from the Zambezi River in Zambia. The car made its way from Queens to Manhattan, dropping him off at Central Park. He was there to shoot the pilot for a new public television show aimed at encouraging early learners to love books. The show was to be called 'Reading Rainbow.' " ⏰ Keep an eye on the time with Face Clock. Handmade by Tadashi Studio with 3D printed parts, it’s the clock that keeps a mood more than it keeps time. Minimalist, modern, cute! We recently updated a few minor things, including…🗂️ Now you can use Javascript to track how many times a Files Block is downloaded ⬆️ Share card improvements that make it simpler, faster, and better translated 🔎 Ensured submitted files preview nicely in Inbox 🔒 Increased Media Manager security 👶🏼 Two of our developers recently deployed additions to their families 🛟 Curious about how something in Pathwright works? Search our up-to-date Help Center for primers and guides. * * * Today’s a hot one here at HQ. Honestly, every “today” has been a hot one for a while. If you’re in the same conditions, I hope you’re taking a walk in the early morning, keeping your ceiling fans spinning clockwise, and not spending too much time online (it’s getting weird). Right now I’m in the middle of reading Project Hail Mary and watching through all the Mission: Impossible movies (new one's great!). What are you reading or watching right now that I should add to my list? Send me a suggestion! Editor, Brand at Pathwright
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