Edition-108 of Delicacies: As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About business buzzword bullshit: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/23/from-inboxing-to-thought-showers-how-business-bullshit-took-over
• About leadership for inter-systemic change: http://www.kosmosjournal.org/article/liminal-leadership/
• About going out in the world and fuck it up beautifully: https://www.fastcompany.com/40480667/john-waters-is-done-being-a-faux-anarchist-underground-filmmaker
• About different timescales and beings other than human: http://lab.cccb.org/en/a-ministry-for-thinking-the-future/
• About compelling corporate narratives: http://deloitte.wsj.com/cmo/2017/11/06/crafting-corporate-narratives-zoom-out-zoom-in-approach/

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Edition-107 of Delicacies: As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About thinking like an algorithm. Disturbing: http://www.bldgblog.com/2017/11/the-ghost-of-cognition-past-or-thinking-like-an-algorithm/
• About humans becoming the last slavery line in large scale robo-commerce. Also disturbing: https://gizmodo.com/amazons-last-mile-1820451224
• About the absurdity and delusion of blockchains: http://magazine.ouishare.net/2017/11/blockchain-degeneration-of-an-ideal/
• About practice redesign and edge workgroups to learn faster and accelerate performance improvements: https://dupress.deloitte.com/dup-us-en/topics/talent/business-process-redesign-performance-improvement.html
• About the societal obligations of platform companies: https://medium.reinvent.net/can-a-society-ruled-by-complex-computer-algorithms-let-new-ideas-in-1eae52d6c3e8

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Edition-106 of Delicacies: As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About a very disturbing trend of industrialised nightmare production and systematic and automated infrastructure violence. Highly recommended. But highly disturbing as well: https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-internet-c39c471271d2
• About fundamental rethinking car functionality: here the example of the steering wheel, why do we still have that? Video from WebSummit 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VFRyb3mpfs
• About the irresponsible strategy of social media to consume as much of your time and attention, creating addiction and consciously not caring about the consequences: http://calnewport.com/blog/2017/11/10/sean-parker-on-facebooks-brain-hacking/
• About Otto Scharmer’s U.Lab new initiative with MIT and HuffPost to create a movement to transform capitalism: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/5a06ef9ce4b0f1dc729a6b39
• About Ray Kurzweil rehashing the coming singularity, adding nation-state, longevity and human freedom. Be skeptical if you ask me. https://singularityhub.com/2017/11/10/3-dangerous-ideas-from-ray-kurzweil/

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Edition-105 of Delicacies: As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About the current “television-internet” and a set of updated platform principles – start of a new cluetrain manifesto? http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2017/10/30/on-platforms-and-sustainability/
• About the end of the Coase firm and the need to cultivate ecosystems: https://www.uktech.news/tech-city-voices/the-nature-of-the-ecosystem-20150925
• About what happens if your work becomes machine unreadable: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2017/10/machine-unreadable.html
• About real-real, fake-fake, fake-real and real-fake. Watch the first part of this session with Scott Smith (@Changeist): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhwXacDaq-E
• About handmade data visualisations without the framing of smartphones and AI: http://www.designindaba.com/videos/conference-talks/can-we-use-our-own-data-become-better-human-beings

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