Friday's Five ✋ #441
From SoundCloud to Sidekick
Happy Friday! ☀️
This week I published my first post on Medium in almost ten years. It’s about the journey from SoundCloud to what I do now, and what I learned in the ten years since a conversation in a Berlin kitchen quietly changed everything. It’s the first in a series. More on what that series is building toward soon. Read it here.
What I’m reading 📖
This essay on the decline of leisure landed in my inbox this week and some of its sentences stopped me mid-read. The argument is simple: leisure has become suspicious, something we have to earn rather than something that belongs to life. At 46, this isn’t a problem I recognize in myself. Switching off has never been difficult. Working hard and then doing absolutely nothing, without guilt, without a to-do list running in the background, feels natural. But reading this reminded me that for many of us, this isn’t easy at all, and that it might be worth paying more attention to. Read it here.
What I’m listening to 🎧
Dreamy, atmospheric, with a galloping beat. My kind of song to enter spring time.
What I’m watching 📺
In Nick’s recent newsletter, I came across this short film about why modern design has become so boring, and why that actually matters. Not an aesthetic complaint but something deeper: the ordinary objects around us, lamp posts, door handles, bus stops, say everything about what a society values. Or stopped valuing. The argument isn’t for nostalgia, it’s for noticing. Watch it here.
What I’m thinking about 🧠
"The mentor and the student are not so different. One has simply walked further down the same road." — Unknown
What else?! 💯
My app find of the week: a calendar app called Vimcal. It mirrors the Google Calendar interface so there’s no learning curve, but the feature that sold me is the availability picker. Sending available time slots to clients is something I do several times a day and Vimcal makes it genuinely fast. If you live in your calendar, it’s worth a look.
Thanks for reading, have a great weekend!
David
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