https://github.com/arrowtype/advice
Links to go along with a lecture of advice to college students
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Links to go along with a lecture of advice to college students
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/arrowtype/advice
- Owner: arrowtype
- Created: 2019-12-02T21:27:19.000Z (over 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2019-12-03T20:48:42.000Z (over 6 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-08-13T19:00:14.396Z (7 months ago)
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- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: readme.md
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# Free Advice
*The following are links that go along with a lecture I have given to a few different college classes. It is not a comprehensive list of all things I would recommend. Feel free to ask me about other things via Email/Twitter!*
## Things I'm working on
- [Recursive Sans & Mono](https://recursive.design)
- [My type foundry, Arrow Type](https://arrowtype.com)
- [Type-X](https://github.com/arrowtype/type-x)
## Useful articles
- [5-Steps to making smart money decisions](https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/money-finance/loans/pay-off-debt-or-save-your-5-step-guide-for-making-smart-money-decisions)
- [Junior Designers vs Senior Designers, by Julie Zhou](https://medium.com/the-year-of-the-looking-glass/junior-designers-vs-senior-designers-fbe483d3b51e)
- [How to Get Value from Wireframes, by Dustin Senos](https://medium.com/@dustin/how-to-get-value-from-wireframes-f40c2cf27960)
- [The 8-Point Grid](https://spec.fm/specifics/8-pt-grid)
- [Naming things (good ideas for naming files)](http://www2.stat.duke.edu/~rcs46/lectures_2015/01-markdown-git/slides/naming-slides/naming-slides.pdf)
- [The Tail End, Wait But Why](https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html)
## Books
- Peak, by Anders Ericsson & Robert Pool
- Nonviolent Communication, by Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D.
- Never Split the Difference, by Chris Voss
- The Three-Body Problem, by Cixin Liu
## Podcasts
- **Design**
- 99 Percent Invisible
- Design Details
- Design Matters
- **Development**
- Syntax
- Toolsday
- Shop Talk Show
- Accidental Tech Podcast
- **General/News**
- Planet Money
- This American Life
- The Daily
- The Ezra Klein Show
- Frienshipping
- Reply All
- Radiolab
## Resources
- [Herb Lubalin Lecture Series](http://coopertype.org/lectures)
- [Several great articles on computing advice for students/anyone](https://f.briatte.org/teaching/computing/)
## 5 computer productivity tips
1. Turn up mouse & key repeat speed
2. Use Video Speed Controller
3. Learn text selection hotkeys: shift ← / shift →, plus opt / cmd
4. Use a window manager like Divvy & a clipboard manager like Paste
5. If you think, “there must be a better way to do X,” there is. Google it!
## plz follow me
- [Arrow Type newsletter](https://arrowtype.com)
- [Arrow Type on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/arrowtype/)
- [Arrow Type on Twitter](https://www.twitter.com/arrowtype/)