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I regularly get questions about the technical setup of Dense Discovery, such as what email provider I use, how I built the archive, and so on. To make answering these questions easier, I wrote a post on the behind the scenes of DD.
Subscriber numbers have increased nicely over the last 12 issues (now at ~16,500) without the open rate taking a hit: it still sits at an impressive 65%. I noticed, however, that quite a lot of new subscribers enter their email address and then never click the opt-in link in the confirmation email. I delete those ‘subscribers’ from the list after about a month of inactivity. Any ideas on how to improve the opt-in rate?
The sponsor slots for the rest of the year are all gone, but I’m now taking bookings for sponsors starting early January. There are still some classified ad slots left for this year. – Kai
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Your Apple Device Manager
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Easy device management for small businesses
Let us manage your Apple devices, so you can focus on managing your business. Jamf Now is a cloud-based device management solution for all iOS and macOS devices in your workplace: check real-time inventory, configure Wi-Fi and email settings, deploy applications, protect sensitive company data, and even wipe a device – from anywhere. Get started now!
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Apps & Sites
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Visual collaboration tool
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Create beautiful flowcharts and responsive wireframes, or brainstorm on a digital sticky notes wall – Whimsical is a fast, versatile visual aid for teams working on complex projects.
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Find & delete inactive accounts
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Once Deseat.me has scanned your inbox (via OAuth 2.0, so it should be reasonably safe) it presents you with a list of all the web services it finds evidence of. From here you can fire off account removal requests with just a click.
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With Drag you turn Gmail into Kanban-like boards that you can share with your team members to work collaboratively on your email pipeline.
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Edit audio & video files by transcription
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Descripts not only transcribes audio or video files, but it also presents them in an editing interface so that you can edit your files by editing the transcription. It’s pretty a smart idea. I’m eager to give this a spin for a future interview recording.
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Off-Screen Inspiration
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Five coffee table books to keep at the office for your off-screen inspiration.
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Forty years of ‘witty thinking’ from over 500 designers, including hundreds of visual examples and interviews with the world’s top practitioners.
Inspiring urban explorers and armchair travellers alike to consider a new way of understanding the world we live in.
Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, the Atlas Obscura book celebrates more than 600 of the strangest and most curious places in the world.
Inviting all sci-fi movie fans on a journey through seven genre-defining classics, discover how they create compelling visions of the future through typography and design.
Powerful imagery at the intersection of photography, infographics, and data visualisation.
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Goods & Accessories
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Extend your iPad’s connectivity
If you‘re using your tablet as a full computer replacement, you may like this Satchi hub for the 2018 iPad Pro: turn the one USB-C port and into a HDMI, a USB-3, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. And then you still have a USB-C port left to charge the iPad.
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Wall/desk photo calendar
Blink is a not-for-profit tear-off calendar showcasing the works of 55 different photographers or 1 photo for every day of 2019. It’s a limited edition of 400, locally made in Germany (and in German), shipped straight from Berlin.
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15% off before Xmas
A reminder and a bit of self-promo: if you’d like to gift Offscreen this Christmas (the Starter Pack makes a wonderful gift!), this week is the last week to order so that it reaches you before the holidays. Need a little extra incentive? Take 15% off with the code OFFXMAS.
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Overheard on Twitter
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Part of the design process is letting a thing get more complicated before it gets simpler again. Unnecessary complexity is often the result of lack of follow-through. You can’t take shortcuts to good design.
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Food For Thought
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Ryan Avent reckons that our jobs have become prisons from which we don’t want to escape: ‘Working effectively at a good job builds up our identity and esteem in the eyes of others. We cheer each other on, we share in (and quietly regret) the successes of our friends, we lose touch with people beyond our network. Spending our leisure time with other professional strivers buttresses the notion that hard work is part of the good life and that the sacrifices it entails are those that a decent person makes.’
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Cal Newport has a new book coming out soon called Digital Minimalism. Blogger and author Eric Barker has read it already and gives us a nice summary with some practical tips on how to be a more mindful around technology.
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The talk that inspired his best-selling book: Anand Giridharadas steps in front of the Aspen Action Forum – a room full of elite business people – to tell them that their philanthropic efforts are nothing more than a charade to secure their own standing in society.
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Aesthetically Pleasing
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Explore the weird and wonderful world of 3D animation by Arben Vllasaliu.
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Faktum is an exploration into the geometric sans genre. (Currently 80% off)
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Classifieds
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The Charmed Life of Alex Moore is the acclaimed debut novel from tech writer Molly Flatt. Described as Bridget Jones meets The Matrix, SFX thinks it’s “deeply delicious.” Buy now
Join The–Dots, a community of creators & freelancers. Post work, credit the team, be discovered & land a dream job.
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Barack Obama, Beauty Banks, & Mr Bingo; Ethos magazine issue 08 is out now, telling stories of the world’s most ethical, sustainable and value-driven businesses – get yours today.
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Classifieds are paid ads that support DD. Use them to promote your project, advertise a job opening, find beta testers, etc.
Book yours →
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The Week in a GIF
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Email us the URL to your favourite GIF and we might feature it here in a future issue.
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