Eat Ice Cream For Breakfast Day
Pick Of The Day — 18th February 2024 — Finding purpose, teamwork, being authentic, engaging, reviews, the first hour, growing up poor, the top 1%, being authentic, working from home, a Valentine from the undertakers, winning hacks, cheap ideas, trapped, ice-cream, McDonald’s, brindle and “This Is The Modern World”
This series features some of the best of Medium, and the wider world, rumoured to exist outside of the platform.
Pick of Medium — Finding purpose, teamwork, being authentic, engaging, reviews, the first hour, growing up poor, the top 1%
Shah Nawaz recommends finding our purpose in life. Mine seems to be paying for a pony:
Teamwork makes the dream work according to David McIlroy, who recommends treating life as a team game:
James Bellerjeau has come to the same conclusion, as this article explains:
Gary David Flamberg wonders why people are not engaging with his comments more:
Susie Kearley has some advice for book authors everywhere, on how to generate more reviews:
Bin Jiang has some tips on what to do in the first hour after publishing a new article, and they don’t include putting the kettle on and opening the biscuit tin (cookie jar for US readers):
Jason Provencio recalls growing up poor — like writing on Medium but just being younger:
Carl Jeffers identifies six traits shared by the top 1% of writers on Medium. Sadly it doesn’t seem to include a Netflix habit and a love of Doritos and chocolate.
Medium tip of the day — Make it personal
The Professor of Medium advises on keeping it personal and authentic to stand out from the crowd:
Outside of Medium: working from home, a Valentine from the undertakers
The Covid pandemic produced dramatic changes to where many people work from. A new study looks at the way working from home has changed society:
As marketing ploys go, an undertaker sending Valentine’s Day cards to care home residents possibly crosses a few lines, but that is what happened in the UK this week. Even neo-liberal economics needs a few guardrails. I have noticed as an, ahem, slightly older person, that as well as getting targeted ads for cruises, stairlifts and continence products, there are also will-writing services, and charities suggesting a legacy would be nice to remember:
Life Hack of the day — 7 winning hacks for 2024
Talking with Tan has some top tips to win in 2024:
Quote of the day:
“Ideas are cheap. It’s the execution that is all important.” — George R.R. Martin
Joke of the day:
(Health warning — swallow coffee before reading)
“When I was younger I felt like a man trapped inside a woman’s body. Then I was born.”
National Days:
National Drink Wine Day, World Whale Day, National Eat Ice Cream For Breakfast Day, National Battery Day, Pluto Day. (All of these are genuine! The link below provides further details, useful for some of the more obscure ones.)
Did you know?
There is a McDonald’s in every continent except Antarctica.
Word of the day: brindle
brindle — brownish or tawny colour of animal fur with streaks of other colour
Clip of the day: “This Is The Modern World” — The Jam
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