Technology provides fast and easy access to resources.
That’s a great thing, but it has a negative side effect. We have fast and easy access to ANY resource. It’s never been easier to study the most advanced science, or binge every series under the sun.

It’s alive! I launched a Learn Create Share Discord server where people can share their creations inspired by the weekly creative challenges and to enable some extra things in the future.

Come and say hello.

Anyone know what on earth happened to day one’s activity feed? The location logging was so useful and now the new “today” shows nothing. Is there a switch I’m missing?

A new edition of the Learn Create Share newsletter is about to be sent to press. Inside are

  • A book sketchnote summary
  • A new creative challenge
  • A collection of Photography
  • An invitation… You can subscribe here.

Finally got round to writing a new sketchnote classroom blog post. When you should use text and when you should sketch in a sketchnote.

(I also have finished a new sketchnote ready to send in this week’s edition of Learn Create Share)

🔗 The Surface Duo, Microsoft’s first-ever Android phone, is $1,400

The Surface Duo, Microsoft’s first-ever Android phone, is $1,400

A foldable can be a big-screen device for watching video, playing games, using a tablet-style app, or browsing a desktop webpage. The Surface Duo will never be a good device for these use cases. To be clear, the device does have a mode that merges the two screens into a big 8.1-inch display, but it’s going to have a big gap down the middle.

There are aspects of the duo that seem really interesting to me:

  • looks good for reading
  • using the second screen as a keyboard looks like a nice option
  • the app pairing looks well done
  • Support for the Surface pen is really nice (imagine that with concepts app!) Basically, it makes me wonder if it could replace my tablet and phone which is exactly what it should do! It is also clearly the type of device that is full of compromises and has a high “early adopter cost” (not to mention high price).

But I have to wonder what an Apple version, with pencil support, would be like.

I’m looking at setting up a private community. I’d like some private channels but also some open public ones. I was thinking of Slack as I know it well but I’m open to alternative suggestions. (I’ve never used discord…but it certainly looks interesting).

That’s a nice style guide you’ve been working off for the last 10 months.
It would be a shame if someone were to decided to change the whole thing and then make you search through all the website copy and update it.

(But still. The em dash is back!)

Finished reading: Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths 📚

Is this a silly idea?
Doing an Ask Me Anything for the next Learn Create Share newsletter? I’ve tried this before for another newsletter and got no questions…and so then had to just pretend nothing had happened.