Glide turns spreadsheets into beautiful, easy-to-use apps, without code. Pick a spreadsheet or start with a template, customize your app, then share it instantly with anyone.

Using Glide (The tool recommended above!), I created a simple app to inspire great conversations! It’s great when drinking with friends, forming new teams and getting beyond any political/weather driven chat!

It’s a web app, so no downloads needed.

Special kudos to Ian for providing many questions and to those who provided feedback on v0.1. View the product roadmap here.

Long time readers will know I’m a huge fan of Notion, an all-in-one workspace. It’s made my work 15-25% more enjoyable. I’ve created a work dashboard template that you can duplicate and use for your own purposes.

My apartment is close to a busy road, so loud traffic can sometimes make sleeping difficult. This small gadget plays soothing background sounds like rain, waves and campfire. Thankfully this minimises the jarring sounds outside.

The negativity of the media was the topic of last month’s bookclub. As my old housemates will confirm, I feel strongly about this! The media’s business model promotes the spread of negativity, hate and outrage to maximise engagement and boost their profits.

Although I stopped consuming the news almost 5 years ago, this book promotes the consumption of ‘solutions journalism’ rather than a total boycott. I also like this less dramatic approach!

Check out my short article from 'How Curious’ #5 for more on my 'Information light diet’, books I recommend and my favourite quotes on the topic.

Mental models are decision making tools that guide our perception of the world and our behaviour in it. They help us understand life, make decisions and solve problems. This book gives a great overview of the most common and useful mental models. Building up a collection of mental models makes life drastically easier!

Galileo tried to teach us that adding more and more layers to a system intended to avert disaster often makes catastrophe all the more likely to happen. His basic lesson has been ignored in nuclear power plants, financial markets and at the Oscars… all resulting in chaos.

Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, the co-founders of Instagram discuss building awesome products, problem-solving, jobs-to-be-and much more. I’m also a believer in keeping a Someday/Maybe list that they mention.

Jim Dethmer, founder of The Conscious Leadership Group shares practical advice about becoming more self-aware, ditching the victim mindset, and connecting more fully with the people in our lives. Kudos to Maya for this recommendation!

A group of bored developers and designers decided to start a thread on reddit to figure out who could come up with the worst volume control interface in the world. This collection had me in stitches! See two examples below: