Dense Discovery – Issue 90 The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters. – Gramsci slash Žižek graphic ❏ Featured artist: link Maria Fabrizio link graphic Dense Discovery table with 43 rows and 1 columns row 1 column 1 link graphic Dense Discovery row 2 row 3 heading level 1 Welcome to Issue 90! link View slash share online right arrow row 4 Every crisis I touched on in previous introductions has in one way or another to do with privilege and oppression. Sending out a newsletter about software and design (or most other things for that matter) can feel inconsequential and disingenuous a lot of times, and this is particularly true right now. Today, I can use this platform to share my support, grief, and anger; I can make donations; I can tweet and retweet; I can publish a few links to thought provoking content or highlight the work of people from marginalised backgrounds. But all of that feels like nothing more than virtue signalling if I’m not making an honest effort to develop and link sustain a real awareness of the systemic racism and inequality that transcends every aspect of society. These last few days I’ve been trying to listen, to observe, and to better understand how link the link different forms of racism present themselves in my own country and community, my actions, and the activism I’m involved in. What’s clear already is that I have a lot of catching up to do. – link Kai link Comment on this issue right arrow You receive this email because you subscribed to link Dense Discovery , a weekly newsletter at the intersection of tech, design, and culture read by over 24,000 subscribers. Support us by link sponsoring link an issue , link booking a classified ad , or link sharing this issue with friends. row 5 row 6 heading level 1 Video Collaborations for Creators heading level 1 link SPONSOR row 7 graphic ❏ heading level 2 link JAMM right arrow heading level 3 Visually lightweight and blazing fast video for work What if you took the best parts of Zoom, Houseparty and Tik Tok to design a fun, lightweight and super fast video for work experience? Meet Jamm – the number 1 collaboration app for creative teams to easily brainstorm, spontaneously huddle, and provide updates wherever they are. row 8 row 9 heading level 1 Apps and Sites row 10 heading level 2 link Untools right arrow heading level 3 Tools for better thinking I love this small collection of thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems . Systems Thinking is such an important concept for trying to make sense of the current state of the world. row 11 heading level 2 link There right arrow heading level 3 Quick access team organiser It looks a bit like Mac OS’ Spotlight but serves a different function: There gives easy access to everything you need to know about each member of your remote team: Who’s asleep? Who’s on holidays? What’s the team doing right now? When will this coworker be back? row 12 heading level 2 link Nuclino right arrow heading level 3 A shared space for structured content Rigidity is often seen as a bad thing in software, but if you ever had to drudge your way through layers of link Notion documents, you may appreciate this: Nuclino is a lightweight and collaborative wiki for all your team's knowledge, docs, and notes. row 13 heading level 2 Email Myself heading level 3 Send yourself links When I’m on the go and come across something interesting online, I often email myself the link so that I can revisit it in more detail later. For a while I used a little app called Mail to Self’, but that app disappeared when GDPR rules came around. Now I just found a perfect replacement: all you need to do is open Apple’s Shortcuts app, search Email Myself’ in the gallery, and add the shortcut. Now you have a new option on your Share Sheet. With one tap you can send links (or anything shareable) straight to your inbox. row 14 row 15 heading level 1 Indie Mag of the Week row 16 graphic ❏ heading level 2 link 34minus 1 right arrow An independent magazine showcasing projects made possible through a united Europe. (Issue 1 sold out, Issue 2 coming in September) – Latest Issue: link 1 – Frequency: 1 issue slash year – Formats: print and digital – Origin: UK Every week, we’re giving away five copies to randomly selected DD readers. Keep an eye on your inbox to find out if you’re among them! row 17 row 18 heading level 1 Books and Accessories heading level 1 link CONSUME RESPONSIBLY row 19 graphic ❏ heading level 2 link Lo TEK right arrow heading level 3 Design by Radical Indigenism There is so much to learn from design techniques based on local, multigenerational knowledge of working with nature. A fascinating, timely topic: In an era of high tech and climate extremes, we are drowning in information while starving for wisdom. Enter Lo TEK, a design movement building on indigenous philosophy and vernacular infrastructure to generate sustainable, resilient, nature based technology. With a foreword by anthropologist Wade Davis and spanning 18 countries from Peru to the Philippines, Tanzania to Iran, this book explores millennia old human ingenuity on how to live in symbiosis with nature. row 20 graphic ❏ heading level 2 link Art prints right arrow heading level 3 Drawn by machines James Nolan Gandy builds a variety of drawing machines that create art. The artwork he sells on his website is all originally drawn by machines equipped with stock standard pens in different colours, forming mesmerising shapes and patterns. row 21 row 22 heading level 1 Overheard on Twitter row 23 I gotta be honest the worst looting I’ve ever seen take place happened a few weeks ago when corporations collected over 500 billion dollars in stimulus money while everyone else was left with a $1200 dollar check and having to decide if they pay for food or rent. heading level 2 – link at mrdaveyd row 24 row 25 heading level 1 Food For Thought row 26 heading level 2 link For Our White Friends Desiring to Be Allies right arrow heading level 3 Read Courtney Ariel on how the privileged can be stronger allies to the marginalised: Being a citizen of a society requires work from everyone within that society. It is up to you whether you choose to acknowledge the work that is yours to do. It is up to you whether you choose to pay this debt and how you choose to do so. row 27 heading level 2 link Professor Ibram X. Kendi on why it’s not enough to admit when you’re being racist right arrow heading level 3 Read A short podcast interview with Professor Ibram X. Kendi, author of link How to Be an Antiracist , in a short interview on how COVID 19 contributes to the current moment and what he describes as link The link American Nightmare dot Every individual lives in a neighborhood. And chances are that neighborhood has racial disparities. Every individual operates in an institution, whether that’s their job, whether that’s their church, whether that’s a club. Chances are their job, their institution has racial disparities or is doing nothing in the face of racial disparities. And so I think every individual can look around their own neighborhood, their own institution, and ask the question, Well, who here is challenging the policy that is leading to these racial disparities? row 28 heading level 2 link What should we do with videos of police brutality? right arrow heading level 3 Read More than once I was autoplayed a video on Twitter that left a mental scar. I agree with Kemi Alemoru here: Footage of brutality is a powerful weapon but as much as it brings publicity to a case it also brings a lot of pain. As such it should be handled with care. row 29 row 30 heading level 1 Aesthetically Pleasing row 31 graphic ❏ graphic ❏ What a vibrant rebrand of fin tech company link KROO dot row 32 graphic ❏ graphic ❏ These stunning charcoal drawings by link Sara Golish are a salute to the fertility of the sun goddess . 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