So, how do you beat boredom in the time of Covid-19 — the second bit

Steve Shearston
4 min readAug 13, 2020

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And they said curiosity killed the cat

Last week I posted the results of a request on LinkedIn and Facebook for interesting links in lieu of happy birthday messages. The rules were that it could be anything that you found genuinely interesting as long as it wasnt covid-19 related.

The response was pretty good, so I collated them all and split it up into two separate posts. The first you can find here and the second below. I’ve thrown a couple of my own personally interesting links in as well just fun.

Hopefully you can find something in these posts that take you down a rabbit hole of interest and break the lockdown boredom.

Gyuri Kiss

Here is the link I’m dreaming about right now.

Anne Shearston

Over 100 dogs racing through Alaska to save a remote village from an epidemic. This is the incredible story of the “Serum Run”.

Deanne Du Barrie

My link is to Ray Dalio’s explanation of how the economy works :) He explains it in a way that’s easy to understand and has the matching graphics

Sergio Pinto

Andrew Shearston

Rémi Pierre

Le Ron

happy birthday mate!!! If you are on Instagram, check out TanksGoodNews … daily news flash of people doing good things … good change to all the madness

https://www.instagram.com/tanksgoodnews/feed/?hl=en

(You’ll have to log into Instagram to view this, but its worth it!)

Nik Slotiuk

Maybe you know already but I am a huge Magic: The Gathering player and have enjoyed the game since 1994. Here are the best 5 plays from the past few decades, which I genuinely find interesting:

Melinda Cee

Icing injuries De-bunked:

Pain strategies in understandable terms and why you may not recover:

(Melinda is a kinesiologist and knows a lot about pain recovery)

Steve Shearston

A couple from me now. I love the technical brilliance that can go into motorsport. The engineers ability to work in the grey areas of the rules…

…and even go beyond them.

And then a couple of good podcasts to listen to whilst you’re taking a nice, socially distanced, walk.

Cautionary Tales — great for taking a moment and looking at history so you don’t repeat it yourself.

30 Animals That Made Us Smarter — a great show about biomimicry, and how you can use the inspiration of nature in whatever you are working on.

Hopefully you’ve found something interesting in these last two posts, or at the very least distracted you from boredom for a little while!

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Steve Shearston

Hi, my name is Steve. I'm a designer and filmmaker. After 16 years of working creatively around the world I've got some tips to share.