Hi everyone,

This week we're covering making smart decisions without getting lucky, ways to identify your ideal audience and improve your writing, amongst the usual bundle of the fun & interesting!

Cheers,
Janel

The Secret Life of A Super Recogniser
What is life like for the rare few who can never forget a face? An eye-opening insight into this world.

In Or Out
"Often overlooked is how uncomfortable it is to sit on a fence.

Get in, or get out. Wasting time sitting on the fence wastes far more time and emotion than you’d expend committing to something."

How To Make Smart Decisions Without Getting Lucky
An in-depth read on how you can make consistently high-quality decisions.

5 Ways To Identify Your Ideal Audience
Ways to hone in on who’s most likely to love your creations. My favorite: "Your ideal audience is a previous version of you". What questions did you have a year ago? What frustrated you?

15 Brief Tips To Instantly Improve Your Writing
Stand out with your words by applying these brief tips.

How To Read A Balance Sheet
Thread on how to read a balance sheet by 10-K Diver.

Regex Library - A curated list of most commonly used regular expressions with code examples in different programming languages: JavaScript, Python, Java, C#, and PHP, for those days where you need a few code snippets but want to spend less time Googling them.

Weather Spark - Tool that helps you compare weather and climate stats of two or more locations.

Link Cleaner - Tool to help you quickly remove unnecessary bits from web links. Mobile friendly.

Shade Map - Click and drag to see how shadows change throughout the day in your map. The effects are stunning in mountainous areas.

Web Design Museum - Explore the timeline of milestones in the history of web design from 1990 to the present.

Matthew McConaughey's Oscar Acceptance Speech (2014) - A genuine, heartfelt and uplifting speech by Matthew McConaughey: "It’s a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates." (h/t to Tom for sharing this in White Noise)