I’m keeping this short and light like last month to catch up!

• [AVIATION] Disruptive passengers
• [AVIATION] Low cost vs ultra-low cost carriers
• [AVIATION] Colors of runway and taxi lights
• [AVIATION] Top 10 longest flights in the world.
• [DESIGN] Moleskine Mania: How a Notebook Conquered the Digital Era
• [DESIGN] I use this one a lot: Strong opinions, loosely held.
• [DESIGN] Facilitation techniques library by the NSRF
• [DESIGN] State of the design job market 2024
• [DESIGN] I think I’ve come across this before but sharing more widely as a design career building resource: staff.design
• [DESIGN] Sardine can designs.
• [DESIGN] Graphics props.
• [DESIGN] An online map library of all shapes and sizes.
• [FOOD] The Fajita Effect.
• [LEADERSHIP] The cost of hiring an employee.
• [PSYCHOLOGY] The 15 Commitments.
• [PSYCHOLOGY] Worry vs anxiety
• [PSYCHOLOGY] Be a thermostat, not a thermometer.
  • “If you’re looking for signals about how someone is feeling, it’s kind of like you’re trying to take their emotional temperature….you have an opportunity to become the thermostat as soon as you notice that another person’s temperature has changed.”

• [PSYCHOLOGY] How can you decide to be happy today?
  • I recently came across a story about happiness that I love:
    The 92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud lady, who is fully dressed each morning by 8am, with her hair fashionably coifed and makeup perfectly applied, even though she is legally blind, moved to a nursing home today.
    **
    After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, she smiled sweetly when told her room was ready.
    **
    As she maneuvered her walker to the elevator, I provided a visual description of her tiny room, including the eyelet sheets that had been hung on her window.
    **
    "I love it," she stated with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having just been presented with a new puppy.
    **
    "Mrs. Jones, you haven’t seen the room..."
    **
    "That doesn’t have anything to do with it. Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time."
    That final line bears repeating:
    Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time.
    Every single morning, you have a decision: You get to decide how to perceive the world.
    You can decide to focus on things outside your control and drive yourself crazy, or you can decide to focus on things within your control and let the rest fall into place.
    No matter what opportunities, challenges, or chaos arise, each day is a fresh start, a fresh decision to make.
    So, how can you decide to be happy today?
• [TECH] Loved this book of Digital Divinity.
• [TECH] Amazon launched a program for Indian handicrafts. Local artisans say it’s not working
• [TECH] A really creative way of using AI: using drawings to create images.
• [TECH] WhatsApp vigilantes in India are converting Christians by force

Finished Reading:

• A Court of Mist and Fury: 2nd in the series and I was hooked in.

Finished Watching:

• The Tribe
• Nobody Wants This
• Emily in Paris