Tour Essentials - Mark Hoppus
http://www.himynameismark.com/blogs/blog/118290053-tour-essentials-mark-hoppus
Packing Light
Over the last few years, I’ve travelled less and less, especially internationally.
It didn’t used to be like that. I’d visited over 20 countries and hundreds of cities before I was in my twenties.
This fact doesn’t really surprise me. I now live permanently in a foreign country, shouldn’t that be enough? Well, yes and no.
I’m 26. I have close to unlimited freedom. Money, and time hardly tie me down. Relatively, I have a lot of both.
Sadly, I often associate that freedom of choice with emptiness. The crowded exotic beach, or piazza surrounded by hotels.
Conversely, when I think about the expanse of North America, I feel nostalgic, and energized. I remember the sights, sounds and people that I interacted with on my gap year, with a backpack and no real expectations other than visit somewhere new.
For most of us, travel is escape. But i’ve already escaped. For me, travel might be a tool for understanding. A way for me to answer why I’m here and who I am. Rather than anything specific about the country, or a particular city.
So how does this play out? The plan is to to take short mini-vacations, four day weekends, often, pack light, and…
Don’t judge a book by it’s cover
Here’s a quick idea. It’s something that might be fun to build for a hackathon.
I love reading, and I’m always looking for new books to add to my list to read next.
While the majority of my wish list was found the usual way, book reviews, friends, mentions on podcasts, articles, or surfaced on amazon, I wonder how else I might find a new book to read.
Most discovery engines focus around the book, a description, and often a review, or many.
Firstly, the book suggestion algorithm that Amazon employs seems to work pretty well. Especially the books that other people read.
But instead of showing the books, why not take a step further, and show the writing too?
For example:
Because you read The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemmingway
You may be interested in “Everybody behaves badly”. Here’s a popular sample:
Browsing through several paragraphs in a book, might be a useful way to decide on reading more — rather than what other people said about it, or something irrelevant like the cover art.
The other piece to solve would be how to pick out the chunk of text. It would have to be either manually curated, or maybe leverage kindle top highlights.
Next step: Prototype.
June 9, 2016 goodreads apps design amazon reading books idea
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