Bez Tytułu - Issue #223
In this week's issue:
The Shame Left on Every Plate
The System That Kept 6,600 Googlers Sane
RingIt
You Already Know When Someone’s Lying to You (You Just Don’t Trust It)
Your Brain Is Rotting and You Feel It
Time Isn’t a Good Reason to Stay Friends
When Healing Looks Like Falling Apart
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📰Something to Read
The Shame Left on Every Plate
Language: English | Reading Time: 10 minutes
People who’ve never dealt with a picky eater know exactly how to fix yours. Starve them. Force them. Look at French children eating kidneys without complaint.
This one hits different for me. I was that kid who refused to eat. So was this writer. For 12 years in communist Romania, where her parents stood in sub-freezing lines for hours just to buy potatoes. Where hunger shadowed the entire country. She still clamped her mouth shut.
Now she has a son who eats plain rice, plain noodles, and plain bread. The cycle repeats. Watching him, she understands something most people miss about what picky eaters are actually refusing. And why shame might be the wrong response.
There’s a Romanian word, rusinea. The shame. That last bit of food left on the plate. Read this if you were that kid. Or if you’re raising one now.
🎬From Youtube
Language: English | Duration: 8 minutes
An ex-Googler spent 9 years teaching internal productivity workshops. Over 6,600 employees learned his four-step workflow for handling tasks, ideas, notes, and files without losing anything in the cracks.
The framework pulls from GTD, Make Time, and Building a Second Brain, but it’s built for actual corporate chaos. Capture fast, organize clearly, review frequently, engage effectively. Simple on paper, surprisingly powerful in practice.
Best part? Platform agnostic. Works with whatever you’re already using. Google, Notion, Apple Notes, doesn’t matter. The system stays the same.
Worth watching if things regularly slip through your mental gaps.
🌐WWW Gems
RingIt
Phone on silent, wedged between couch cushions, and you’re already late. You know the drill.
This app lets anyone you trust make your phone ring at full volume, even during Do Not Disturb or sleep mode. No logging into Find My on someone else’s device. No location tracking. Just a 30-second loud ring triggered remotely by a friend, family member, or your other device.
Simple premise. Solves an annoying problem. Works on both iOS and Android.
🎞Short Format
» You Already Know When Someone’s Lying to You (You Just Don’t Trust It)
» Your Brain Is Rotting and You Feel It
» Time Isn’t a Good Reason to Stay Friends
» When Healing Looks Like Falling Apart
🖌️TL:DR
This week’s sketch note:
Author: AngelikaSkotnicka
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🎧Banger of a week
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