Our 8 Great Discoveries of 2012
Jake
Here is a bunch of crap I discovered this year, in no particular order of importance.
- New Wahl Detailer trimmers
- Square app
- How to Un-friend someone on FaceBook from my phone
- Honey Dew’s frozen coffee
- The online barber culture (here’s a sample)
- Evernote app
- The simple fact that if you win an argument with your wife and you are finally ‘right,’ you still lose. Because in a relationship, if one of you is hurting, you both lose.
- Comic Book Men TV series
Stacey K
- NUMBER ONE, by far, no bones about it – Macklemore – life-changing hip hop that feeds my soul. High praise, I know
- Thoughtcatalog.com
- Gratitude – writing three things I’m thankful for every day
- Boston. No, really! One of my new favourite places 🙂
- NaNoWriMo – even though I only wrote 7,000 words, it was an amazing experience, with really supportive, inspiring people
- The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan – old timey language and beautiful allegory, bursting into poetry every few paragraphs… basically a recipe for enchanting Stacey’s heart
- MyFitnessPal (website and app) – really helped me be realistic about what I’m putting in my pizza door (read:mouth)
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern – sometimes I read bestsellers and I’m like… how the f*** does this sell a million copies? And then I read The Night Circus, and I’m all like…. now THAT is a bestseller, people
Geoff
- Shot Designer App
- Backstory – newsstand digital magazine for iPad
- Embedded by Dan Abnett
- Edward Burns – Q&A With Jeff Goldsmith Podcast – ‘Newlyweds’
- Steamdot Coffee
- Wounded Healer by The Followers
- The Lumineers – Self-Titled
- Movies – to many to mention
Matt
- Life without vulnerability is not life (TED Talk by Brené Brown)
- Introversion is okay (TED Talk by Susan Cain)
- Josh Garrels’ music breathes into my soul
- Being unperfect is life giving (book by Brené Brown)
- Shame means death to the soul (TED Talk by Brené Brown)
- Read good sci fi (Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card)
- Don’t overthink – make the decision that is directly in front of you, not the eight different decisions that may, or may not, result as the choice in front of you unfolds
- I feel better when I don’t eat wheat and dairy
Nate
- Of Monsters And Men – my wife discovered OMAM before they got big and I didn’t like them, but they grew on me and now they are, by far, my favorite Icelandic indie folk/pop band
- Pluto by Naoki Urasawa – an eight volume manga series based on ‘The Greatest Robot on Earth’ story arc from Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy. Blew my mind in both art and story
- Google Picasa’s cross process filter for photos
- The Pacific Northwest – from Astoria, Oregon to Vancouver Island, it is a beautiful part of the world
- A renewed interest in minimalism as a lifestyle
- Adobe Creative Cloud – access to all of Adobe’s tools without the steep upfront cost
- The Daily Show with Jon Stewart – not like I had never seen it before, but I really got into The Daily Show during the U.S. presidential campaign
- The Newsroom, Aaron Sorkin’s new show on HBO
Bonus
- Tanuki – racoon dogs (via Mark)