Every Tuesday I share five things I've liked and think you might like too. Here are this week’s Five Things…

1. This charming little video might change how you think about small talk.

2. A great insight into Malika Favre's creative process and how show approaches her illustration projects. If you enjoy the video definitely check out her Instagram.

3. A really interesting piece on how social media (primarily Instagram) is influencing architecture. It's a little sad to think of everything as just another backdrop to a selfie but if it gets people more interested in the world around them maybe it's a good thing? — "Could our obsession with capturing and sharing also represent an opportunity for innovation? Shouldn’t architects be welcoming a platform that encourages people to look more closely at their surroundings?"

4. “Few exercises help clarify your thoughts better than writing” — I totally agree with this quote, and everything else in this piece on the benefits of Selfish Writing.

5. I'm 100% in favour of phone free concerts.

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Every Tuesday I share five things I've liked and think you might like too. Here are this week’s Five Things…

1. I'm only 30 minutes into this but Tim Ferriss' podcast with the drummer Dave Elitch is really good. If you're learning any instrument you'll get a lot out of the first 30 minutes at the very least. I'm sure the remaining 1 hour and 40 minutes will be just as good.

2. If you like board games check out Ravine. I played it for the first time yesterday and it's a lot of fun. It'll be a fun game to get in time for Christmas. Here's the trailer.

3. Prepare to have your mind blown: The Shepard's table illusion.

4. Two videos exploring writing and mixing music on an iPad Pro. I'm really hoping Logic Pro will come to iPad in some form soon. Please Apple, please!

5. Do you need to work long hours to get a lot done? Charles Darwin didn't think so!

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Every Tuesday I share five things I've liked and think you might like too. Here are this week’s Five Things…

1. A interesting video exploring how much music is worth.

2. If you use Instagram you're probably familiar with the term Influencer. Influencers are people with large followings that make a living touting various products to their fans for very large sums of money. Often without revealing their endorsements have been paid for. What a sleazy business.

3. A great headline: Scientists unravel secret of cube-shaped wombat faeces and an even better opening paragraph: “Of all the many mysteries that surround the common wombat, it is hard to find one as baffling as its ability – broadly acknowledged as unique in the natural world – to produce faeces shaped like cubes.”

4. I don't think I really appreciated the genius of the London Tube Map. Fascinating video.

5. An amazing collection of images: Earth’s Wonders Like You’ve Never Seen Them Before

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Every Tuesday I share five things I've liked and think you might like too. Here are this week’s Five Things…

1. A band from L.A. booked a European tour by deceiving music venues into thinking they had a large fan base, when in fact they had no fan base at all. Unsurprisingly, when no one turned up to the shows people got a little bit suspicious. It turns out "the band" was just one guy and that he'd set up a fake booking agent and record label to arrange the tour. The whole story is nuts. Bands often big themselves up to impress their fans and to book better gigs, but this is something else. How on earth did he think he'd get away with it?!

2. A great episode of the Reply All podcast, The Snapchat Thief. If you aren't using a password manager and an app for two factor authentication on your accounts, this should convince you to reconsider that!

3. Part 1 of a fascinating four-part investigation by Der Spiegel into how Manchester City and its owners broke UEFA's financial fair play rules.

4. I really like Vox's Earworm series on Youtube. This is my favourite episode to date: Jazz Deconstructed: John Coltrane's "Giant Steps"

5. The Beatles have released a 50th anniversary edition of the White Album and it's HUGE (107 songs on Spotify). Enjoy!

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Every Tuesday I share five things I've liked and think you might like too. Here are this week’s Five Things…

1. Rob Reid's After-On podcast very quickly became one of my favourites. I subscribe to far more podcasts than I could dream to listen to, but I always listen to After-On. His most recent episode with Laurie Santos was on the science of happiness, listen to it! You'll learn a ton.

2. This story is kinda difficult to summarise in a paragraph... Lil Miquela is a bot and social media influencer with over a million followers on Instagram. She admits to not being real and was once hacked and replaced by a Trump fan. It's all a bit strange but makes for an interesting read. 2018 is weird.

3. Food for thought from Seth Godin. Are you the world's worst boss?

4. An interesting breakdown of the music theory behind David Wise's Donkey Kong Country soundtracks. One for the music nerds!

5. A great Bowie quote on creativity (click through for the longer quote): "I learned that mixing elements of bad taste with good would often produce the most interesting results…. It wasn’t so much about how I felt about things, but rather, how things around me felt."

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