I don’t bookmark too many sites. For articles, I try to throw them into Pocket. Other sites will get a note in the notebook or an email to a friend. For some reason, though, I don’t hit that star in Chrome too often.
And when I do, there are a variety of folders that things go into. Writing, sites of Zirtual interest, education material, etc…..For everything else, there’s been a folder simply called ‘2013’.
At the end of the year, here’s the randomness that made my bookmarks.
Find The Conversation Concept Map — perhaps still the best designed website I’ve come across. A great database of articles on various topics, but an even better aesthetic.
Reddit ‘what are the best websites for NOT wasting your time’ thread — self-explanatory
Letters of Note — great blog of correspondences through the years. Lots of famous back-and-forths here for the literary minds & historians.
Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling — self-explanatory
GetInspired365 — new inspiration for each day
37 mind-expanding subreddits — for the Redditor in me.
The Complete Guide to Interval Training — early seeds of a healthy year. workouts on the go.
The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We’re Going to Miss Almost Everything — great NPR article on living in the age where anything can be in your hands in minutes. Daunting, mystifying, yet wonderful.
Maggie Appleton — great artist I discovered. Love her sketches with quotation additions.
Jason Collins is the Envy of Straight Men Everywhere — a good reminder of the first openly gay professional athlete. Big step for sports in 2013. This is author Sherman Alexie at his finest — shoving our own presumptions and cultural norms in our face.
The Big Dot — more people live inside this circle than outside of it
Radical Openness — video on new paradigm. Dig it.
How Do You Define Yourself? — Alan Watts asking the important question. He was good at this.
Mindful in May — a month of mindfulness. Good links to be found here.
What? You Didn’t Fall in Love with Rome? — great little sentimentality trip here. I know not everyone loves the eternal city. But their wrong. Simple.
Ernest Hemingway’s Reading List for a Young Writer — self-explanatory. and how.
Reddit’s r/malefashionadvice The Basic Wardrobe — good for dressing on the road. plan to follow this more in 2014.
The Dark Side of the Digital Nomad — blogger Mark Manson on some things you lose out by living on the road.
The Inside Story of the Moto X — goes into the phone Google released this year, and some of the reasons for its acquisition of Motorola. Good read.
100 Alternatives to ‘So whaddya do?’ — good list of interesting questions to spark a conversation other than, well, the standard.
Vancouver pic — this is nice to look at it. Can’t wait to make it back to all the glass.
Milesimizer — helps determine whether to use miles or $ when booking plane tickets
Note to Selfie — great article on why using social media doesn’t take people ‘out’ of the moment. A truly potent analysis of the world we live in today.
And that’s all. 23 sites. Not the best or the worst I’ve found. Just the ones that found their way to the 2013 folder.
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