Issue #9
Creative and Marketing
Creative
Chill out with 2 hours and Mr. Doodle
Creative inspiration from the last 7 days from the people at The Drum
"Digital is a word that has been banned from WPP. That artificial distinction between analog and digital is not helpful." WPP to cut 3500 jobs
Marketing
Dare to Succeed in 2019: The Originality Delusion and Other Creative Trends
How the most hated app on Reddit pulled off a marketing campaign on Reddit
UK fashion brands take action to tackle modern slavery
Environment
In 200 years we have reversed a climate change lasting 50 million years
UK shop Waitrose has vowed to remove glitter from all products by 2020, citing environmental concerns. Glitter is considered a microplastic and doesn't break down when it enters oceans, where it can ultimately become a part of the food chain
Trump administration to strip pollution protections, harming vital wildlife
An AMA by Alan Stern, head of Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft due to fly 1 billion miles further than Pluto | comments
A study has found that constantly being online or on your smartphone creates a state of “online vigilance” where one's mind is automatically monitoring communications. This does not give your mind a time to rest and decreases mindfulness | comments
Hacker News
Ask HN: What's the best book on modern UI/UX?
Although possibly due to the fault of the search engines, rather than Medium itself, the author puts across an interesting point. "Don't post evergreen content on Medium" | comments
If you want a more acerbic view of the weeks events on Hacker News, you could do worse than visit Webshit Weekly
Merch
Psychology
Intuition and how to make better decisions
New York Times article discusses age and its definition and the meaning of "am i old?"
Dev
The most popular javascript weekly links of 2018
An introduction to web scraping with Python
Recap of frontend developments in 2018