Sunsama is a daily planner for elite professionals that brings together all your SaaS tools and calendar into one calm and beautifully organised place. Integrates with Google Calendar, Github, Asana, Trello, JIRA, etc.

GitBook enables teams to collaboratively build beautiful documentation for their products. Or you can use it to create a company internal or a public knowledge base. Check GitBook’s own docs for a preview.

I’m intrigued by Loomio, in part because it is open source and built by a worker-owned cooperative social enterprise. It doesn’t really try to sell itself, so figuring out what Loomio does requires some digging: “Loomio makes it easy for groups of all shapes and sizes to collaborate and make decisions across time and space.”

Trying to organise an event or meeting with a lot of people? Cally is a no-frills tool to allow people to quickly and easily find a suitable date and location.

The publisher-focused CMS Ghost has just announced that their newest version now supports a paid premium membership model. I’ve never used Ghost myself but I think their business model – a sustainable non-profit with a free self-hosted version and a paid hosted version – is offering an exciting alternative to the robber-baron approach in tech.

A Kids Book About →

Kids books about grown-up topics

What an interesting publishing idea: “We make kids books that matter. There are no dragons, silly bears, or cute tales about princesses. Only the challenging, empowering, and important topics that kids experience every day. Kids’ lives are complicated, and our mission is to help kids and their grownups have honest conversations about things that matter.”

Clear Habit Journal →

A habit-shaping notebook

I’ve yet to read James Clear’s book on forming better habits. (Heard a lot of great things about it). This notebook by Baron Fig was designed as an actionable companion to the book: “The Clear Habit Journal is a combination daily journal, dot grid notebook, and habit tracker.”

Even if you opt out, companies learn about you through close connections. That’s why privacy is not just about you but those around you, too. “When you expose information about yourself, you are almost always exposing information about others. (...) A culture of privacy is necessary to enjoy intimate conversations with others, have frank debates within a closed setting, and establish the bonds upon which liberal societies are based. Constant surveillance and public exposure breed conformity and silence.”

Some great practical advice on maintaining ethical leadership: “[Undercover police] officers need to get to know and infiltrate a new culture. They need to fit in by speaking the language, acting according to code, and dressing to fit in. But, in doing that, they risk going too far – mimicking the culture of the gang members they are out to stop and getting caught up in a group’s values system. The same kind of ‘moral capture’ takes place in companies, not overnight, but gradually. Psychologically, you’re making a trade-off between fitting into the culture and staying true to what you value.”

The vastness of stuff we can buy online has left us confused and anxious: “Those infinite, meaningless options can result in something like a consumer fugue state. After shopping online, I often don’t remember days later whether I actually made a decision, and I regularly pause at the mountain of Amazon boxes next to my apartment building’s elevators to glance at the names on the labels, just to see if I forgot to expect something.”