Daniel Prindii

For our latest edition of the Questionnaire, we have @kernsandcairns.bsky.social , a typeface designer and founder of Kerns & Cairns type foundry. From Diana’s recommendations: a bookshop in Cambridge, MA, a book by Robin Wall Kimmerer and a movie by Olivia Wilde. 1/2

In the latest edition of the Questionnaire, part of the Miscellanea newsletter, I asked Sam Howard- a conversion copywriter and strategist- about books, apps, and note taking. 1/2

For our latest edition of the Questionnaire we have Mia Pantoja, a multifaceted artist and a Customer Success Specialist at EmailOctopus. From Mia’s recommendations: bookshops in Poland and United Kingdom, books by Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga and Cormac McCarthy and a Spike Lee film. 1/2

In my latest newsletter edition, I write about how I take notes while reading and how I mix analogue and digital to organise my ideas into a searchable archive. Plus reading recommendations from Rosenfeld Media, a Star Trek cookware, and 1/2

My latest newsletter edition is about using the LATCH framework to organise data and information. Richard Saul Wurman, creator of the framework, wrote in the book Information Anxiety: 1/3

“When we accumulate and organise information around our interests, and consequently reject the vast majority of the overwhelming onslaught of raw data and understand the differentiation between data and information, we will be able to learn what we desire to know so that we can design our 2/3

When AI-generated content, or the way conscientious companies put it - AI-assisted content is becoming common, how do you keep track of what was human-made or human-checked? 1/4

When the answer is ‘Yes’, integrating that information (book, report, article, etc.) in our lives, businesses is easy to do. When the answer is anywhere in the area of ‘uugh...’, paralysis sets in. 3/4

When AI-generated content, or the way conscientious companies put it - AI-assisted content is becoming common, how do you keep track of what was human-made or human-checked? 1/4

In this week's newsletter, Lucas, creator of the Analog Reader app, answers the Questionnaire. The Analogue Reader is a tool that transforms your saved articles into a newspaper-layout PDF that you can print or read on an e-reader. 1/2

For the first edition of the Questionnaire, Lex Roman shares their favourite bookshops, how they take notes, why they miss Super8 filming, and what they are currently reading. @lexroman.com is a writer and publisher of “Revenue breaker”, a small business media supported by its subscribers. 1/2

What do a bookshop, a Super 8 film-making story, and a book about Google have in common? All are stories and recommendations from the first interview in the Miscellanea newsletter. Going live Monday. Subscribe here: miscellanea.danielpr... 1/2

In the next week’s edition of Miscellanea, I write about European social platforms, reading (are we still reading properly?) and how to make sure that mass scanning of private messages (chat control 2.0) will not be implemented. Subscribe 👇 miscellanea.danielpr... 1/2

"Watching videos is a more passive form of engagement than reading. Hutton recently collected brain images of children, all 3 to 5 years old, as they took in stories in different formats. 1/6

To the contrary, video thrusts so much information at the viewer at once that it’s difficult to focus on any one piece of it. The frames keep changing regardless of how much the viewer has noticed or comprehended. Few people pause and rewind to reflect on what they might have missed." 5/6

"Watching videos is a more passive form of engagement than reading. Hutton recently collected brain images of children, all 3 to 5 years old, as they took in stories in different formats. 1/6

Children also used their cerebellum—a part of the brain associated with learning—less when watching a video. “They don’t really have to use their imagination as much, because things are happening on the screen,” Hutton told me. “The brain’s just doing less work to understand and learn from what 3/6

"Watching videos is a more passive form of engagement than reading. Hutton recently collected brain images of children, all 3 to 5 years old, as they took in stories in different formats. 1/6

A Pew Research Center analysis shows that “a quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible, as of October 2023”. 1/2