Jan 30, 2021

Tech Friend - January 2021 Issue ❄️

By Sahil Parikh • Issue #16 • View online

Hi there,

Happy 2021 🍾 and I hope this email finds you well.

Speed matters.

Especially, when it comes to your website. Search engines penalise sites that load slowly - and so do your users. They will come to your site, wait and leave. I have started the year with a project to speed up a web app. Initial web and mobile scores (link below to the software I use to track this) were below average so now it’s time to dig in and optimise.

Have a super start to 2021,

@sahilparikh

PS - I am still playing around with the theme of this newsletter - should it be more tech or just a balance of tech, biz and cool stuff that I have discovered online this month. Do write in if you have an opinion.

Simon Sinek

@simonsinek

To be authentic is to be at peace with your imperfections.

12:00 AM - 29 Oct 2020

Here are the top tech trends of 2021, according to 30+ experts

During the year ahead, technology will help us emerge from the pandemic in ways big and small, obvious and surprising.

www.fastcompany.com • Share

North Korea Targets—and Dupes—a Slew of Cybersecurity Pros

The sweeping campaign took advantage of the collaborative spirit among researchers, with an unknown number of victims.

www.wired.com • Share

Zoomification of society: Tech's influence (and necessity) was impossible to ignore in 2020

After a pandemic year that pushed more of life online, the idea of spending even more time on the internet doesn’t sound so crazy anymore.

www.nbcnews.com • Share

Software

PageSpeed Insights

One of the many page speed tools out there. This was is developed at Google and has really good recommendations/ explanations on how to improve your site’s loading time.

developers.google.com • Share

Music

Jana Winderen

I have been fascinated by Jana Winderen‘s soundscapes. She is a Norway-based audio artist. She creates soundscapes by paying particular attention to “audio environments and to creatures which are hard for humans to access, both physically and aurally – deep under water, inside ice or in frequency ranges inaudible to the human ear.” These soundscapes are perfect when you are reading or in deep work.

www.janawinderen.com • Share

Video

How Bill Gates reads books

Kindle Highlight of the Month

Hard work is really overrated. How hard you work matters a lot less in the modern economy…

…Figure out what you’re good at, and start helping other people with it. Give it away. Pay it forward. Karma works because people are consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project. But don’t measure—your patience will run out if you count.

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness.

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