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Future mementos – The Daily PPILL #104

Future mementos – The Daily PPILL #104

I was listening at an excellent podcast episode from “99% Invisible”, about how the US flag got designed and crafted. It happens to be that there is an actual surviving specimen of the Star Spangled Banner (not our anthem, but an actual flag), which is now...
Conversations with ourselves – The Daily PPILL #99

Conversations with ourselves – The Daily PPILL #99

You have been forgetting about it for the last two weeks. And it is bugging you. So now you remembered, and you don’t want to forget again. So you email yourself. You send a reminder from today’s You, to Future You. Tomorrow, you remember yet another...
How I overcome “writer’s block” – The Daily PPILL #89

How I overcome “writer’s block” – The Daily PPILL #89

During my daily writing journey, many have either asked me how do I manage to write something everyday or they have just shook their heads in disbelief like if would be an unattainable feat. To be honest, it looked like that to me as well a few months ago. The truth...
Search engine making you dumb? – The Daily PPILL #84

Search engine making you dumb? – The Daily PPILL #84

Since the appearance of the search engine a great deal has changed about how we do things. I can still remember when memorizing something at hearth, was not just something for convenience, to have the most frequently needed information “in the cache”, and available...
Play to the strengths – The Daily PPILL #79

Play to the strengths – The Daily PPILL #79

Most of us go through our lives paying attention to the things that we are not particularly good at. Report cards in school tell us what we have to improve on, or “put in more effort”, the scale tells us how badly out of shape we are, and later in life, on...