Hello there!
Hope you are holding up like everyone else. I’m optimistic that the cloud of uncertainty will lift soon.
But I must share my vulnerability here. To be honest, this last one month has filled up so much anxiety in my mind. Not just because we are stuck at home and doing work beyond our required hours, but because this period has taken away the biggest freedoms of human beings, to meet with other people and to travel.
Well, one could argue that we are still able to socialize, but to be honest, not being able to be in the presence of another human being in real life, slowly starts haunting. Loneliness starts hitting you hard.
If you are lucky and stuck with people (family, friends or roommates) you are still far better than stuck home alone. Because this may be the longest social isolation we would ever see.
Coming to the good part, we are still alive. You (of course, you are alive, corpse don’t read – well that was dark) and Me. So let’s keep holding on to the interactions on virtual social worlds, let’s write letters to our loved ones and give them those when this thing is over. This time won’t be coming ever again in our lives (i hope not).
Ok. Coming back to the newsletter.
Book listening progress- This week was bad, I didn’t read even one single day.
Still on the book “The Sign of the Four” book from Sherlock Holmes series (80% same as last week). 2nd book – Becoming a Category of One – How Extraordinary Companies Transcend Commodity and Defy Comparison (2nd Edition) by Joe Calloway. (10% same as last week).
But still, I was able to post a few good photos from my collections to my Instagram feed which you’ll find at the bottom of this newsletter.
Without further adieu, please enjoy this week’s Saturday-Pentacle.
Issue 180 // Week 16 // 2020
A Lightroom tip I found useful —
Why EVERY PHOTOGRAPHER should use Smart Previews! – I am a sucker for organization – digitally and physically both. For all my photography work I use Adobe Photography plan which includes Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom.
In recent few weeks, I tried to build up my Lightroom catalogue from scratch and the below video helped me a lot.
Now I have a good Lightroom workflow that I can easily churn out photos on daily basis.
If you are a photographer I recommend Lightroom for sure and If you are new to Lightroom, make sure to check out the below video –
An article I found intriguing —
Why plague doctors wore those strange beaked masks – Recently when I was doing some research for my video on Corona Virus and I was trying to co-relate historical pandemics with Corona situation now. I found that in In 17th-century when the plague hit Europe, then doctors who were treating patients wore strange beaked masks. It was believed that these outfits could purify poisonous air. But eventually, they were wrong.
A profound video by Tom Scott —
This Video Has <real-time-number> Views by Tom Scott – This is the first time I saw a person who’s a coder at heart teaching the way life works and how nothing lasts forever. Even the title of this video that he says, can’t stay static. He coded a script which changes the title of the video to show the real-time view number in the title itself. It’s like a little RPA (robotic process automation) he made.
Amazing how he tells all this in a very profound way standing on the White Cliffs of Dover.
Just watch this video you’ll understand the feeling.
A Song/artist which/who made me feel like I’m nothing (in a good way) —
Jacob Collier: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert – This artist was recommended to me by Stuart DaCosta (recent podcast guest).
As soon as I saw this video I was in a constant state of shock and admiration for some time. This particular video is a set of three songs.
I loved all three but the second song – Feel was especially awesome.
Quote I’m pondering on lately –
Suffer less and be able to help others suffer less.
— Unknown
Before saying “see you next week”
I published a podcast episode for which I waited 2 years!
Episode – 20 with Stuart DaCosta who is a music composer and the bassist of The Yellow Diary Band (Loved recording this one).
Check it out on Spotify –
I also posted a few pictures on Instagram. You can check them out here or go to my Instagram for full stories and more –
Until Next Saturday!
Thanks for reading.
Himanshu
Hey friends, I’m Himanshu, a technology professional working in Mumbai, India. I spend most of my spare time making Podcasts, YouTube videos and write on Lifestyle Design and sometimes stories. Every Saturday, I send out an email newsletter called “Saturday Pentacle”, a list of the cool stuff I explored in the past week, including quotes, photos, books, articles, movies, documentaries and so on!
No spam, ever. Only great stuff.
Saturday-Pentacle // Issue 180 // Week 16 // 2020