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Bell Labs Holmdel. From Severance season 2, episode 5.

Journaling prompt generator.

Sometimes in a journaling session it's hard to get yourself writing. You need a kickstart, an idea to latch onto and get your brain moving. I know I do when it's 5:30am and I sit down to write.

So I built a simple tool for displaying journaling prompts called Muse. It's open source on GitHub. You can run it yourself and edit a single file to add or modify the prompts it uses.

This is the first entry in my mission to ship at least one small tool or product each month this year.

#writing #tools #journaling

New York and Erie Railroad diagram, 1855.

#railroad #transit #maps #organizations

The Headhunters perform "Sly", 1974.

#music #video #herbie hancock #jazz #Youtube

Two phenomenal records to start a recording career.

#sade #music #1980s

Western Electric Plant. Cicero, IL.

Western Electric was the captive equipment arm of the Bell System and produced the majority of the telephones and related equipment used in the U.S. for almost 100 years.

#tech history #bell labs #history #technology #architecture #chicago

Nantucket Sleigh Ride. John Stobart.

#art #painting

A Chapel in the High Mountains. Hugo Hodiener.

#art #austria

"They died to make the desert bloom"

Hoover Dam bas relief.

#art deco #sculpture #monument #hoover dam #architecture

Bell Labs Holmdel Complex. New Jersey.

#architecture #new jersey #bell labs

Winged Figures of the Republic. By Oskar Hansen at Hoover Dam, 1937.

#architecture #art #art deco

Matching work modes to work spaces

Our levels of productivity, creativity, and inspiration have an intimate, hard-to-articulate connection to our environments. And we all have different predilections — quiet vs. noisy, calm vs. bustling, light vs. dark. Each quality creates a climate that pulls something different out of us.

Our surroundings shape how we work, yet we also have the power to choose and to mold them ourselves.

#newsletter #productivity #work #creativity