โญ What are you all doing to stay sane while at home? ๐ฆ
Steven Male
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Just wanted to make a thread about what we are all doing to live our best lives while there is a lot of physical distancing going on ATM ๐
What books are you reading?
What tools are you using?
What games are you playing?
Are you finding it easier to work on your startup or harder?
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Samar Mustafa@samar_ux
Lots of exercise with my two kids, gardening, and reading...
...and User testing https://www.teamstack.co and gathering insight on how Teamstack can help remote working friends.
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In between evaluating the best and cheapest video conference tool, since all the meetings that I was supposed to have will now have to be online. Our product is a trip planning product and we had plans of getting our first set of users this month, but that's not happening..so we just decided to develop more and launch a little later. I guess, am sounding too low, I will go buy the latest release of Ori and chill for a few hours :D
@anamikachaudhary Once you find your tool, would you be willing to try out my app tendii.io along with it? It's meant to make remote meetings and calls more productive
Having a regular workout routine + eating and working at regular hours definitely helps keep up my energy levels and keeps me sane. I've also been meditating for a while now, and even five minutes a day helps a ton with reducing anxiety levels and improving focus (so crucial when there's so much COVID-19 media floating around).
@sharontlin that's awesome! What kind of workout are you doing -- are you using any app or guide for it?
As I have a lot of work to do on my laptop. I actually use my own app to keep good posture for long periods. It also helps me to remind myself to stretch. If I had some time I would play the multiplayer of Battlefield 4.
The app to stay healthy when you use your computer: https://backwatcher.ml
I've been FaceTiming quite a bit with friends, cooking, and reading 'Mindset' by Carol S. Dweck. Also, a few days ago, I put together a website with a list of activities that you can do while stuck at home so building this out has been a project itself that gets me excited about the day. What have you been doing?
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I live with my girlfriend so thankfully having another person around makes things less lonely. If anything, her and I have grown closer together during this time. I'm sure the same is true for other relationships.
So plenty of time to do other things that didn't have time before:
- Catching up with some changes at home
- Playing boardgames
- Looking for new projects to start
But luckily we got a dog and go outside a bit with him so we can enjoy some fresh air but miss a lot basketball.
@alejandro_portillo_guerrero Amazing. I was a few weeks away from getting a cat before New Zealand went into lock-down ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ Would have been much nicer with an animal around!
@stevenmale_ Yeah it's great, although I am suffering for him a bit also because its a puppy, and he just wants to go outside and play all day long and we can't do that for now.
A cat as you were saying would be perfect because you don't need to take him out. Hope you are able too get it at some point!
@alejandro_portillo_guerrero let me know if you are interested in playing group games online with your friends. We had a chat based travel collaboration platform, now we are pivoting to chat based group games and would be ready in a couple of weeks.
Cooking with inspo from https://www.lastingredient.com/ (mostly veggie stuff). Last weekend I made sun-dried tomatoes! Trying to focus on the simple pleasures of home cooking and real food.
@christine_orchard OMG yay thanks for the share too! I'm vegan and it all looks incredible. Oh how lovely. I've never made sun-dried tomatoes :o Maybe I'll try this week!
I recently finished reading "1984" by George Orwell. One of my favorite books of all-time! For tools, my team has been using Quire Mobile 5.0 for our team projects and Slack or Zoom for our meetings. Useful apps for WFH.