Edition-114 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About forgetting “The Internet”: a great talk by Evgeny Morozov aka Mr. Cynicism-as-a-Service. Always makes you reconsider your assumptions: https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/events/53642/come-and-forget-with-evgeny-morozov
• About the folly of distraction and the deep gut-level discomfort and sense that you should be doing something else with your life. That you’re playing the wrong game: http://mailchi.mp/ribbonfarm/how-to-ride-your-brain-bicycle?e=951a16bd6f
• About the good intentions of decentralized web advocates but the no silver-bullet technical solution for the challenges that lie ahead: https://www.wired.com/story/decentralized-social-networks-sound-great-too-bad-theyll-never-work/
• About platforms: a great critical update by Haydn Shaughnessy: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/platform-predictions-2018-haydn-shaughnessy/
• About extraordinary breakthroughs in collective intelligence and unusually foolish or malign leaderships: http://evonomics.com/how-to-creative-collective-intelligence-david-wilson-mulgan/

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