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I've been thinking about ways to promote Dense Discovery to grow its audience, but as always my aversion to marketing and selling my own work is getting in the way. So I'm doing the lazy thing by asking you: if you were running a newsletter like DD and had a very limited budget, how would you go about finding more thoughtful readers like yourself in a tasteful way? Have you had good experiences with a particular campaign?
(I should say that I won't consider pay-per-click campaigns on social media because I don't believe we should reward those platforms for what they're doing.)
Please reply with your thoughts. As usual, I read every email and will respond to those requiring an answer. Thank you! 🙂
– Kai
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Apps & Sites
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Hello is a browser-based video chat app that as soon as you visit the homepage (and give permission to access the camera) throws you into a chat room with a shareable URL.
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Done encourages you to create healthy routines by “helping you set goals, tracking your progress, and then motivating you with streaks/chains, all in a simple, clean package.”
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FontBase is a cross-platform font manager with some impressive features, including built-in Google and Adobe Creative Cloud fonts support, fast search, CSS-styling previews, and much more.
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Simplify your Twitter experience
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Refined Twitter is a browser extension that allows you to customise your Twitter UX and does things like hiding promoted tweets, displaying Instagram photos in-stream, and much more.
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Changing the World (Really)
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Goods & Accessories
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Self-balancing desk lamp
“Intelligently engineered using a counter-balance mechanism, the lamp can be adjusted to any position in one simple, smooth action. The leaf-shaped cast-iron weights keep it balanced whatever the position.”
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A more sustainable USB battery
Can battery packs be environmentally friendly? Nimble, a B-Corp, is trying an alternative approach with more transparency in their choice of suppliers, using the least harmful materials and eco-friendly packaging. They also include an e-waste recycling bag in every order, so you can dispose of your e-junk ‘responsibly’.
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Overheard on Twitter
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Worst trend of 2018: cancelling people for a single statement. Reducing a human to their worst thought. Ignoring millions of other thoughts inside that city of a mind to annihilate them for one you disagree with. This rate, we'll end up with no-one to like but ourselves.
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Food For Thought
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If you haven't read Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari yet, you definitely should. In this brief interview, the author outlines some of this thoughts about the presence and the future, and how you can help prepare yourself for the technological changes to come.
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An extremely informative and well-researched talk about cultural bias at work: Farai delves into what it is and explores why people from certain parts of the world are more likely to have certain biases - making the point that diverse perspectives come with whole people who have whole cultural backgrounds and experiences.
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With the EU enforcing progressive (?) privacy legislation and punishing anti-competitive behaviour, and China creating its own digital surveillance state, we're heading towards a future with three different types of internet.
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An interesting read about a company that's picking up the pieces of failed Silicon Valley startups. “Silicon Valley thinks it has failure figured out. Even beyond the cliched embrace of ‘failing better’, a tolerance for things not going quite right is baked into the tech industry.”
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Aesthetically Pleasing
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Quincy's rounded letterforms make it a really friendly and welcoming serif font.
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Classifieds
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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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