Hi everyone,

This week we're diving into how you can save time, make use of your brain fuel, the psychology of menu design and the Year in Search according to Google.

Cheers,
Janel

The Release Ratio: How to Make Use of Everything You Know
Books, videos, podcasts and articles. We devour these things, but how do we truly make use of what we learn from them? The secret to that lies in the release ratio: time spent creating / time spent consuming. To make content consumption meaningful, you must create or build something with it.

Endless Media
With the advances in AI, the way we create, consume, and commercialize media is going change drastically.

The Year in Search 2022: According To Google
Wordle” was Google’s most searched term globally in 2022. Check out the global results and explore what was trending locally e.g. the US. The Queen obviously featured heavily in the British searches!

Saving 10 Hours A Month
Best practices to try to live by to maximize your free time.

• Automate it - Take out the meaningless
• Do the small things in between - Take a few minutes between meetings to cross off things from your to-do list
• Batch it up - Work, food, laundry and similar tasks
• Do it now - Expense reports, paying bills, and clearing out junk mail are better done immediately
• Invest in the things that matter - There's a point in your life when your time is more valuable than your money. That's when you invest in help.

The Psychology Of Menu Design
Every menu is deliberately designed to subtly influence you into choosing particular items, often ones that will eventually result in you spending more. Loads of research supports the psychology of menu engineering, which includes topics like placement, color theory, font sizes, and more. Explore some of the tricks of menu design in this article.

Fun fact: I spent two years of my career as an Insights Lead in a huge company's Foodservice arm. One of our projects involved us helping our customers (restaurants, bakeries) implement some of these tricks!

ChatGPT - AI-based chatbot that is free to use. Generate song lyrics, get help writing code, excel formulas or coming up with new company names.

Sign Learner - Learn sign language passively while you surf the Internet, via a Chrome extension.

Saveeit - Site for design inspiration that enables you to capture and share beautiful things.

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Rare comic books, wine, whisky, sports cards, sneakers, collectibles... the world of alternative assets is huge — and Alts is your best guide. Join 75k readers and subscribe.

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Asteroid Launcher - Launch an asteroid at any location on Earth after choosing the size, composition, speed, and angle to see what happens. Another fun gem from Neal Agarwal.

FakeYou - Text to speech, but with a huge selection of well-known voices, like Morgan Freeman or The Joker.

FlipClock - Turn your computer into a full-screen flip clock.