Two Beautiful Sites
Since I have been sick and non-productive for the last week and my last post was a long one, today I’m going to write a shorter post about something different: two beautiful websites that I’m envious. The sites either contain beautiful images or thoughtful and substantial writings. The substantialness of those sites makes me ask the question of how do people maintain their productivity or create such beautiful things? Where do they find the time for this? I’m hard pressed to maintain my pace for shorter posts, never mind the longer ones, and to find or create a decent image to go along with the writings (to give some visual relief on the page).
I must admit I get envious of other’s accomplishments.
The first site is the Half Baked Harvest with its most beautiful, mouth-watering photos. I first found out about this site via a cookbook that I happened upon (fittingly called “Half Baked Harvest Cookbook”). I was drawn by the recipes that made unusual combinations of food (unusual to me) and by the wonderful photos. Just imagine this picture on the book cover: a large, rustic bowl overflowing with quinoa, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, feta cheese, kale, sweet potato fries, hummus, olives, avocado and steak. The arrangement of food sitting in the bowl pulled me in and as I flipped through the pages, my exploratory mind wanted to try these unusual recipes and so I bought the book.
Then through the book I learned that the author had a website so I visited it to see if I could find a recipe for New Year’s Eve. There you will see many beautiful photos taken by the author, dishes developed by the author and a blog that is more than a cooking recipe. I believe that this site will be my new cookbook (in addition to the physical copy).
The part that I’m envious of is the beautiful imagery. Granted, her topic of cooking lends itself to artistic photography but I still yearn to do the same. I just haven’t figured out how to do it in conjunction with my various topics.
The other site is more of an intellectual beauty: it’s about the future of learning. Under the “Writing” section she has quite a few good substantive articles worth reading. The articles are centered on the idea that in the very near future, we are going to need to know how to learn because work is changing so rapidly and dramatically. The skills we have today will not help us in the future; we will need a totally different set of skills. Furthermore, we won’t be able to just get an education in the early part of our life and then just go on to work with that education because that education will become obsolete over time. We will have to be continuously learning in order to remain productive over our lifetimes.
Unfortunately, the site has a limited selection of articles because most of her writings or suggested readings reside on LinkedIn. I happen to follow her so I get some of her insights on articles that she has read.
The other section that looks like worth reading is “Our Reading List: Future of Work”. There, she has a flipboard of articles that look very interesting. In this flipboard there’s a lot of articles about jobs, AI, technology and future of work. I probably could spend hours reading all of the goodies she has found.
Where does she find the time to do all of this reading? And her writing is very substantial – no skimpy little posts for her. I’m struggling to figure out how I could do the same.
So there you have it, the two sites that are making me green with envy.
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