Resources

This page is full of lists – a list of the books I love, a list of the gear and software I use, and a list of the things I carry with me on a daily basis. I share all of this, hoping you will discover something new and interesting.

📚 Books I love

Going through all the books I read since 2016, I noticed I don't actually read a lot of books about design, marketing and technology. Nevertheless, the books listed below are worthy additions to your reading list.

Fiction

11/22/63 – Stephen King
How to Stop Time – Matt Haig
Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir
Sleeping Beauties – Stephen King
Under the Dome – Stephen King

Non-fiction

Eating Animals – Jonathan Safran Foer
Epic Bike Rides of the World – Lonely Planet
Horizontal Parenting – Michelle Woo
Invisible Women – Caroline Criado Pérez
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs – Stephen Brusatte
Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harari
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck – Mark Manson
Why We Sleep – Matthew Walker

🎒 Tools, toys & apps

I use a lot of apps, gear and tools in day-to-day life and some of them might be interesting to you too. Have a look, and let me know if anything listed below found its way into your heart.

On my desk

Everyday carry

Productivity apps

1Password – The best password manager I ever came across.
Asana – Task and project management for individuals and teams.
Craft – Great for taking notes and creating documents.
Done – Habit tracking (I use it for tracking health goals).

Essential apps

Matter – All-in-one RSS reader and read later app.
Pastel – Color palette based wallpapers.
YNAB – Budgetting app (couldn't do without it).

Design tools

Affinity Suite – Great (and cheaper) alternative to Adobe Creative Suite.
Coolors – Randomly generated color palettes.
Figma – Wireframing, prototyping, mindmapping, diagramming, etc.
unDraw – Open source illustrations.
Unsplash – Beautiful, free stock photos.

Photo gear

Metapho - Metadata editor for iOS.
Nikon D3300 Digital SLR Camera
Peak Design Cuff Camera Strap
Peak Design Everyday Sling Camera Bag
Peak Design Slide Camera Strap
Pixelmator Photo - RAW Photo editing on iOS.

Website

Alto – Clean and minimalist Ghost theme.
Ghost – Modern CMS for content creators.
Plausible – Cookieless and GDPR compliant Google Analytics alternative.

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