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

1. Episode #1 of Radiotopia's new mini-series Ways Of Hearing explores how digital audio changes our experience of music and time. If you are a musician or big music fan, I think you'll love it.

2. Austin Kleon hits the nail on the head in his post You can be woke without waking up to the news. Give it a try, no phone, no social media and no news for the first couple of hours of your day.

   "A friend of mine said he didn’t know how long he could wake up to such horrible news every day. I suggested to him that he shouldn’t wake up to the news at all, and neither should anyone else. There’s almost nothing in the news that any of us need to read in the first hour (or two or three or four…) of our day."

3. This is quite the long-read, but if you are a big user of Facebook and have any concerns about your privacy, it's probably worth your time: You Are the Product.

4. I've just rediscovered James Clear's excellent blog. He has a wealth of articles exploring habits, thinking and learning. I found this one particularly interesting: Mental Models: How to Train Your Brain to Think in New Ways.

5. Over the last week, I've been making a concerted effort to listen to more albums by artists I like, that I've not really listened to previously. This week's music recommendation is Blanck Mass' self-titled album, which in spite of liking their other music, I'd neglected to listen to at all!

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

1. What a treasure trove! Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks have been digitised and made available only by the British Library.
    
2. A pretty useful concept, understanding your Circle of Competence.
    
3. An amazing collection of drone photos from National Geographic.
    
4. I think I'm going to agree with Keith here, this is the best video ever.
    
5. This week's musical is Ben Lukas Boysen & Sebastian Plano's soundtrack to the game Everything. The whole project is pretty incredible, click to learn more about the game or watch the trailer (it's worth watching!).

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

1. A diver's worst nightmare. How he remained calm is beyond me!
    
2. Albert Einstein's advice to his son on how to learn.
    
3. There are some things that you just can't unsee. At least in this case they're pretty funny!
    
4. If you are learning a foreign language (or want to), this is a great list that will help supercharge your learning. I'm putting as much of it into practice as I can as I continue my quest to learn German!
    
5. This week's musical recommendation is Islands by The XX. I'd forgotten how good their first album is! 

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

1. An interesting discussion on how products (like Facebook and Twitter) are being engineered to be addictive, the relationship between novelty and familiarity in making “a hit”, and how we’re encouraged to binge watch TV shows.
    
2. A cool video from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: Sonder, The Realisation That Everyone Has A Story.
    
3. This list got me very excited, a treasure trove of great music: The 50 Best Ambient Albums of All Time.
    
4. They were ghastly at the time, but to say they haven't aged well is quite the understatement: 13 "Changing Rooms" Designs That Really Haven't Aged That Well.
    
5. This week’s musical recommendation is Grapevine Fires by Death Cab for Cutie, I really like that drum beat.

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

1. One of my projects this year is learning to code. Learning anything from scratch is hard work, but it feels like I'm starting to make some progress. I've completed three projects in the last couple of weeks: a quote machine, a weather app and a Wikipedia viewer. I'll report back with my fourth project once I've made some progress! If you fancy learning to code, check out freeCodeCamp.
    
2. Having opinions is easy, doing the work to justify holding them is less so: The Work Required To Have An Opinion.
    
3. If you like birds (and high quality photography) you're going to like these: Birds Around the World in 31 Incredible Photos.
    
4. I've been really enjoying the latest series of Dead Ringers. It seems whatever the state of our politics, it never ceases to be a great source of comedy.
    
5. This week's musical recommendation is Moments Descend On My Windowpane by Rafael Anton Irisarri. If you like it, check out his album A Fragile Geography.

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