Sep 1, 2019

📡 Nobody's safe from it... 😬

Revue

September 1 · Issue #53 · View online

Welcome to this week’s Pulse!

Hope you’ve had a fantastic weekend. Mine’s been super hectic! I’ll tell you why in a few weeks time 😊

A couple of days ago, I Pulse got about twenty new subscribers in a short space of time, and to be honest, I have no idea from where… So, if you have recently joined Pulse, I’d love to hear where you found it! You can just let me know by replying to this email! I’d really appreciate it.

Unfortunately, this issue misses the news section. Hopefully, it’ll come back next week. Hope you enjoy this issue.

- Ben from [ perspective ix]

🧠 Insights

You know what it is, don't you? - Credit: Luke Chesser on Unsplash

Instagram Hoax Fools US Department of Energy Head Rick Perry

A hoax meme is currently spreading across Instagram — and Rick Perry, the head of the United States Department of Energy, just fell for it.

The image is nothing more than a huge paragraph of text warning users that Instagram is changing its privacy policy “tomorrow,” and if they don’t repost it, Instagram will have “permission” to use everything they’ve shared on the platform.

“Feel free to repost!! #nothanksinstagram,” Perry wrote alongside the image, which has since been deleted from his Instagram page but still up on his Twitter account at the time of writing.

Nobody is safe from hoax… Nobody should stop learning.

Read more on SensorTower.

📱 Tools & Apps

Thrive: A new kind of app that will help you get your life together [iOS]

DigitalProfile: Digital CV platform to find jobs that match your skills.

Poem: A free library full of poems and poets [Android]

🎧 Audio Stimulation

Hidden Brain - You 2.0: Deep Work

www.breaker.audio – Share

When your phone buzzes or a notification pops up your screen, do you stop what you’re doing to look and respond? That’s what many of us are doing. Even though we think we should be less distracted by technology, we haven’t admitted the true cost of these interruptions. This week, we revisit our 2017 conversation with computer scientist Cal Newport, and consider ways we can all immerse ourselves in more meaningful work.

🐦 Tweets of the Week