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Hyperpolyglots: The Week's Links

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS:

  • The Mystery of People Who Speak Dozens of Languages buff.ly/2BYf4ud
  • Slightly More Than 100 Fantastic Articles buff.ly/2MD8z58
  • Milton Glaser on Making New Work at 89 and Why ‘Retirement Is a Trap’ buff.ly/2wvKjH3
  • How ‘Grand Theft Auto’ Is Changing the Way the World Experiences Music buff.ly/2omMn0u
  • Cary Fukunaga Doesn't Mind Taking Notes from Netflix's Algorithm buff.ly/2wlr1Fc
  • Sucking the Life Out of Mona Lisa buff.ly/2wqQ1e7
  • Ordinary People Focus on the Outcome. Extraordinary People Focus On the Process. buff.ly/2wp6mA5
  • 28 Pieces of Productivity Advice I Stole From Others That Made Me Successful buff.ly/2LvByCw
  • The key lessons I learned creating a popular Design System buff.ly/2MPau2l
  • Use these 3 brain hacks to do something uncomfortable buff.ly/2wnYezX
  • The underappreciated genius of retro video game fonts buff.ly/2MZ7io7
  • “Read my lips: the rise and rise of photo-editing Amy Odell goes in search of the digital facelift” buff.ly/2Nqy6KZ
  • “The largest set of aggregated data on cultural engagement anywhere in the world” is being made available for academic researchers. buff.ly/2Pf2SqF
  • Opinion | In Defense of Taking Things for Granted buff.ly/2BW2v2B
  • The (Very) Busy Person’s Guide to Getting More Sleep buff.ly/2NrtGnh
  • The terrifying, hidden reality of Ridiculously Complicated Algorithms buff.ly/2Pdrv7i
  • Procrastination 'is down to how mind works' buff.ly/2wjmfbo
  • Why Universities Need ‘Public Interest Technology’ Courses buff.ly/2BR4pS8
  • Inside the BBC’s “innovation incubator” buff.ly/2LvB6UV
  • Real wealth buff.ly/2vx2605
  • Design Debate: Have New Tech Innovations Made Work Life Easier or Harder? buff.ly/2KwGSVJ
  • ◉ 3 Minutes Of Branding Advice By Brian Collins - smartercreativity.com/blog/2018/8/28…
  • John Maeda: How a Fall Opened a New Chapter of Identity and Inclusion buff.ly/2P0bEZL
  • The Serious Security Problem Looming Over Robotics buff.ly/2BPslFs
  • The Instagram Generation: What happens when a society that values image over substance meets a medium dominated by the former? buff.ly/2Lr2cBh
  • The 10 Commandments of Good Products buff.ly/2PraIP3
  • Design for People, Use People Language – Julie Zhuo buff.ly/2w97PdF
  • The dilemma for Shakespeare theaters: Increasing audiences without selling their souls buff.ly/2Nn1FNO
  • Don’t underestimate the power of allowing an audience on stage buff.ly/2PI8HOG
  • The Guy Who Wouldn’t Write a Hit: An Interview with David Simon buff.ly/2MSEwpc
  • Are you smarter than a pigeon? buff.ly/2qVM1Qj
  • How can schools best prepare students for the future? Give them real work to do buff.ly/2LqXjDz
  • ◉ Recommended: Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey Through the World's Strangest Brains - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • How to get a good night’s sleep buff.ly/2LmBzIJ
  • Don't fail fast -- fail mindfully buff.ly/2PCOz04
  • It’s the year 2038–here’s how we’ll eat 20 years in the future buff.ly/2BFy7tc
  • The color gray is no one’s color. It is the color of cubicles and winter camouflage, of sullage, of inscrutable complexity, of compromise. Ode to Gray buff.ly/2wdAbDt
  • Scientists Reveal the Number of Times You're Actually Conscious Each Minute Spoiler: It's not very often (and that's a good thing).buff.ly/2Nf8PTZ
  • How Hollywood Is Racing to Catch Up With Netflix buff.ly/2BMczLp
  • ‘You’re gonna cough during the entire performance?’ What dancers hear, see and sense from the stage. buff.ly/2BL6fEd
  • Noah Charney shares the stories behind some of art history's most important works—those that we can no longer see buff.ly/2Lp6t36
  • The Case for Slow Design: Make art, not products buff.ly/2Pt2aqU
  • This is fantastic. It's like Google but for color: Picular buff.ly/2Ld0kqR
  • ◉ Vince Kadlubek: Make a Mind-Blowing Experience - smartercreativity.com/blog/2018/8/26…
  • Look Inside the World's Most Beautiful Libraries in a New 560-Page Photo Book by Massimo Listri buff.ly/2BdhapC
  • Underwater and airborne craft can now communicate directly and wirelessly. buff.ly/2w8qqGR
  • Why do startups fail? A postmortem of 256 failed startups. buff.ly/2wb8xXN
  • The evolutionary mystery of gigantic human brains buff.ly/2wauJBd
  • Say Hello to Stratolaunch, The Largest Airplane Ever Created buff.ly/2MBt1Tc
  • Gallery: Meet 6 bewitching, rarely seen creatures from the ocean’s twilight zone buff.ly/2BHS96a
  • This town will get its heat from an unlikely source: a data center buff.ly/2Pz6epB
  • Bacteria can be used to turn type A blood into universal type O buff.ly/2w7GtEN
  • New world map is a more accurate Earth and shows Africa’s full size buff.ly/2LiZuIZ
  • A Guide to Combining Fonts buff.ly/2o54urH
  • Top 10 Characteristics of GREAT Project Managers buff.ly/2BFoRoU
  • Who needs democracy when you have data? Here’s how China rules using data, AI, and internet surveillance. buff.ly/2LqcJIc
  • What to Do If You Feel Trapped by Your Circumstances buff.ly/2w4GJEG
  • A comprehensive guide to yellow stripey things buff.ly/2w9nSIl
  • Giphy has launched the first-ever film festival dedicated to gifs buff.ly/2LkqYOH
  • Good Things Happen in Book Stores buff.ly/2w7gDR5
  • The Appeal of Lonely Places buff.ly/2Lnwn7H
  • Blue Bottle Founder James Freeman’s Journey From Mozart to Cortados buff.ly/2wotihW
  • Creative is not a noun buff.ly/2wlmwK0
  • The Challenge of Scaling Soft Skills buff.ly/2LlMm5Z
  • Behind the Scenes at the World's Most Fascinating Workshops buff.ly/2w5HcX7
  • An Adorable Rodent Gives a Glimpse Into Earth’s Climate Chaos buff.ly/2LlaHsz
  • How Microsoft Tackles Russian Hackers—And Why It's Never Enough buff.ly/2OYJ3Ur
  • With Embryo Base Editing, China Gets Another Crispr First buff.ly/2BsK8SJ
  • InstaNovels: Bringing Classic Literature to Instagram Stories buff.ly/2LhwHom
  • The Untold Story of NotPetya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack in History buff.ly/2LiSprR
  • The end of ads: Advertising is obsolete, writes University of Kentucky’s Ramsi Woodcock. Here’s why it’s time to end it. buff.ly/2BCPfzU
  • A day in the life of a Waymo self-driving taxi buff.ly/2vXYS6G
  • 385 Feet of Crazy: The Most Audacious Flying Machine Ever wired.trib.al/XS7olOH
  • Is This the End of the TV Writers’ Room as We Know It? buff.ly/2Me5N5h