Dense Discovery – Issue 46 The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity. – William Butler Yeats graphic ❏ Artwork by link Timo Kuilder link graphic Dense Discovery table with 42 rows and 1 columns row 1 column 1 link graphic Dense Discovery row 2 row 3 heading level 1 Welcome to Issue 46! link View slash share online right arrow row 4 I keep getting emails asking about what tools and services I use to create and send this newsletter. A while back I shared my setup with you in link this Medium post dot It’s a pretty manual process: I work in a text editor and then upload the final version to link my server through an old school FTP client before using link Mailblast (affiliate link) to send it out to subscribers. Mailblast’s no frills approach gives me all the flexibility I want, but I’m definitely starting to miss some advanced features that come standard with the more expensive email marketing apps. Then again, if you consider how costly the likes of Mail Chimp and Campaign Monitor become once you send to tens of thousands of readers, it makes my laborious process worthwhile. With newsletters undergoing a kind of renaissance right now, there are link tons of options available. You can even link host your own email app or use link Buttondown for simple, personal email lists. Happy inboxing! – Kai Dense Discovery is currently read by over 21,500 subscribers. Support us by (1) link Sponsoring an issue , (2) link Booking a classified ad , or (3) link Sharing this issue with friends and colleagues. row 5 row 6 heading level 1 Inspired Stock Imagery heading level 1 link SPONSOR row 7 graphic ❏ heading level 2 link Stocksy United right arrow heading level 3 Art forward stock photos plus footage Stocksy United is an art forward, royalty free stock photography plus footage agency founded on creative integrity and respect for artists. With our exceptionally high curation standards, discovering unique, beautifully authentic imagery is effortless. row 8 row 9 heading level 1 Apps and Sites row 10 heading level 2 link Tresorit right arrow heading level 3 Secure Dropbox alternative Dropbox seems to feel the investor pressure to keep growing because it’s trying so hard to become more than it needs to be. Several folks on my Twitter feed were recently looking for alternatives and that’s when I came across Tresorit. It looks like a fantastic, more secure alternative without the Silicon Valley growth pressures (even though they also raised money face with rolling eyes ). row 11 heading level 2 link Over Sight right arrow heading level 3 Avoid video slash audio spying Over Sight monitors a Mac’s microphone and webcam, alerting the user when the internal mic is activated or whenever a process accesses the webcam. row 12 heading level 2 link Really Good Emails right arrow heading level 3 Discover beautiful emails Really Good Emails is perhaps the web’s best source for email design inspiration and it just got an upgrade to make discovering newsletters easier and faster. row 13 heading level 2 link Roll Call right arrow heading level 3 Podcast quality recording Roll Call is a free voice chat service that records every participant locally and – once the call is over – sends the audio to the person who initiated the recording. row 14 row 15 heading level 1 Idle Knowledge row 16 graphic ❏ heading level 3 Icon by link ST heading level 2 The (Russian) origins of Tetris Tetris, the hugely popular game many of us first discovered on a Game Boy, was conceived by Soviet Russian game designer Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov in 1984. He derived its name from the Greek numerical prefix tetra (all of the game’s pieces contain four segments) and his favourite sport, tennis. Unsure of how to publish his game and fearful of the response of the Soviet regime if he did so, Pajitnov gave the rights to the Soviet government for ten years. Although licensing was never fully obtained, the game spread to Hungary, the UK and eventually to the US and Japan. In 1996, the rights to the game reverted from the Russian state to Pajitnov. That year, The Tetris Company was founded, claiming to hold copyright registrations for Tetris products in the US and taking out trademark registrations for Tetris in almost every country in the world. link (Source ) row 17 row 18 heading level 1 Goods and Accessories row 19 graphic ❏ heading level 2 link Jabra Move Style Edition right arrow heading level 3 Affordable wireless headphones I’ve heard a lot of good things about Jabra headphones. The Jabra Move Style Edition doesn’t have as many impressive features as the new noise cancelling link Jabra Elite 85h , but at just $100 you still get a lot of headphone for your dollars. row 20 graphic ❏ heading level 2 link Mr Bingo Gravestone right arrow heading level 3 Hand made concrete desk gravestone link Mr Bingo knows how to get a chuckle out of me. (If you get a chance to see him talk at an event, it’s totally worth it.) One of his latest creations is this hand made gravestone for your desk with a timely reminder of what makes life worth living. Currently sold out, but more stock coming soon. row 21 row 22 heading level 1 Overheard on Twitter row 23 Most people are capable of building systems that are twice a complex as the systems they are capable of maintaining. heading level 2 – link at casio juarez row 24 row 25 heading level 1 Food For Thought row 26 heading level 2 link I was a fast food worker. Let me tell you about burnout. right arrow heading level 3 Read A sobering read about a journalist who tries out low wage service jobs and finds that technology has made them even more gruelling: As technology progresses, it tends to make life easier for the top of the labor market – those skilled, educated workers with decent salaries and benefits. Often overlooked is how those same technological advances have made it possible to control and monitor unskilled worker productivity down to the second. row 27 heading level 2 link Inside the Pricey War to Influence Your Instagram Feed right arrow heading level 3 Read As if we needed more proof of how obnoxious influencer’ culture (it’s an economy, really) has become, here’s a read about the lack of ethics and basic human decency that is required to be part of the get rich quick scheme that is Instagram celebritism’. Possible paywall row 28 heading level 2 link A People Leader’s Guide to Active Listening right arrow heading level 3 Read An actionable, short guide on how to become a better listener – applicable to work and private situations alike. row 29 row 30 heading level 1 Aesthetically Pleasing row 31 graphic ❏ graphic ❏ One of my favourite sans serif discoveries of recent: link Staff is a sturdy neo grotesk sans family, designed to be practical and versatile in its use of space. row 32 graphic ❏ graphic ❏ Get lost in the colourful nature scenes by of Bangalore based artist slash illustrator link Febin Raj dot row 33 graphic ❏ graphic ❏ Canadian potter link Abby Ozaltug makes you love your plants even more with these charming planters. row 34 graphic ❏ graphic ❏ Yes, what you see here is all made from paper – by French artists link Zim and Zou dot row 35 row 36 heading level 1 Classifieds row 37 link Emailancer are your fast and friendly experts in email template design and development. 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