1. Use personal pronouns
2. Start with a verb
3. Prevent concerns
4. Use natural language
5. Default to active voice

What we all get wrong about anger

Anger is typically the result of the following assessment about the world: Something is wrong. Now, if that were the end of the assessment, you’d expect to feel negative. But hidden between the lines of most assessments of injustice is an implied assessment of justice: Something is wrong… and I’m right!

Anger is a crutch that makes us passive

My argumentative judgmentalness and all the ego-boosting anger that resulted distracted me from a very real solution to my problem.

2. Cuban Rotations
   These are just great. Cuban rotations strengthen all four rotator cuffs, and rotator cuffs are one of the main culprits in a shoulder injury. There isn't enough time for all the good things I have to say about this exercise.

3. Work Your Extension
   Most folks have terrible shoulder extension. Shoulder extension is a seriously undertrained range that your shoulder should have.

3. Dynamic Wrist Stretch
   On all fours, flip your hand upside down so the back of your hand is on the ground and press your elbow straight into a deep wrist flexion. Bounce back and forth a couple of times in this wrist flexion position.

General visual consistency

How to make our design look sleek and consistent? Start with preparing this:

1. Choose colors you want to use
2. Choose a font(s) you want to use
3. Decide on how deep/blurred you want your shadows to be.
4. If you are using icons, decide whether you want to use solid or outlines. Try not to mix them.
   By now, you created your little design-system. How cool! 😎
   Now you should stick to it.

If you want your shadows to look even more fanciful, make the shadow have the same color as the element that casts it, then lower the opacity. Ideally, the background would have a similar tone, too.

Making gradients look more smooth and delicate

Choose the right color for the font, so it matches the background.

The first pass will almost always suck.

In Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration, Ed Catmull equates new ideas to newborns. They need care and nurturing — space to breathe. Think of your initial ideas (read: designs) as a garden in the early stages. It will need constant watering and tending until the plants are strong enough to survive on their own and bear fruit. A garden doesn’t look like much in the early stages. But it has tremendous potential with the right care.

Artists work with an idea. They nurture it. This does not require ingenuity or creative genius. Forget about all of that. It doesn’t necessarily require a lot of experience either. It simply requires hard work to push through iteration after iteration. You are essentially watering the plants (the idea) and nurturing them.

“Quality is a probabilistic function of quantity.”

A genius is a genius, Simonton maintains, because he can put together such a staggering number of insights, ideas, theories, random observations, and unexpected connections that he almost inevitably ends up with something great.

Your job is not to come up with the best idea.

Your job, then, is to take the best part of others' ideas and shape them into the best idea. I always have ideas and want to be the first to get them out in the open where they can be evaluated (and hopefully adored). This is my ego at play — talking to me, telling me to show everyone just how clever I am. I’ve had to learn to keep my mouth shut and temper my ego. My job isn’t to come up with the best idea. It’s to listen and watch.

Go beyond your industry.

Creatively find the time to be creative.

Your ability to sell is often far more important than your design skills.

The isometric grid itself is basically the guideline to have the right angles when drawing from an isometric perspective.
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The “true isometric grid” has a 30º angle between the x and z axes to the plane. Graphic design software like Vectornator offers the feature to easily edit the angle of the isometric grid. Also, you are able to increase & decrease the size of the grid which is super helpful if you want to add for example a small balcony on your isometric housing.

A peek into the brain of Scott Jenson, Google’s UX strategist.

1. Sweat the small stuff.
2. Build ugly prototypes, fast.
   He calls it Assertive Instinct — the state where you are so hyped about your idea you can’t even imagine a world where it could be wrong or insufficient or simply incompatible with what people actually need.
3. Look for ideas in weird places.
4. Don’t criticize. If you do, ask one thing, politely.

Lots of other useful information for finding sizes of screws and washers

Medium-size storage for bits and bobs

I made my red boxes out of wood and kicked them up a notch by making them in three different sizes, 6 in., 12 in, and 18 in. wide.

• hamstrings
• calves
• hip flexors

By Asa Christiana #226–May/June 2012 Issue

• ceramic alumina wheels
• diamond dresser

By Matthew Millham Issue 293 - August/September

The Outermost Chair is a loving homage to the original Adirondack chair designed by Thomas Lee in 1903. That first design has spawned thousands of variations, but Outermost Home founder Chris Nagle wanted to return to the elegant, dynamic form of the original — timeless in design and constructed for endurance and longevity. Each chair is crafted of solid sapele mahogany, notched for structural integrity, and finished using stainless steel fasteners. All Outermost Chairs are crafted in partnership with Cape Associates Custom Builders, located on the Outer Cape.

Perform each exercise for 50 seconds. Rest 10 seconds between each exercise. Repeat the entire circuit 3 times through for a total of 15 minutes.

• Air squat
• 180-Degree Squat Jump
• Alternating Forward Lunge to Lateral Lunge
• Alternating Reverse Lunge to Curtsy Lunge
• Glute Bridge Walkout