Edition-142 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• Bizarre video about consciousness in an AI-driven world. Alienating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpHy73N1BgE
• Another video, this time about dance: how did this ultimate frivolity become a human necessity? Every culture dances: https://youtu.be/FyTqEl1yKbQ
• Why the institutional models built on scalable efficiency or scalable learning are incompatible. By John Hagel: https://edgeperspectives.typepad.com/edge_perspectives/2019/03/expanding-our-horizons-efficiently.html
• About a nightmarish scenario of surveillance by machines: https://www.wired.com/story/machines-shouldnt-have-to-spy-on-us-to-learn/
• An artistic reflection on ethical aspects of living with robots and AI: https://www.dezeen.com/2019/03/26/robot-love-ine-gevers-ai-development-unethical/

If you can’t get enough of these and want more than 5 articles, you can hang on to the firehose, the extended version of Petervan’s Delicacies in REVUE. Subscribe here: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/petervan

Edition-141 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About smaller groups creating more innovative work than larger groups: https://eighteenthelephant.com/2019/03/14/science-small-groups-and-stochasticity/
• About coders’ addiction to efficiency. There is more to life than efficiency: https://www.wired.com/story/coders-efficiency-is-beautiful/
• About the evolution from an attention economy towards an availability economy: https://slate.com/technology/2019/03/uber-gig-workers-customers.html
• About the importance of play in work and culture: https://mailchi.mp/ribbonfarm/the-playflow-challenge?e=951a16bd6f
• About the inner workings of Apple – Long video interview with Ken Kocienda – Via Andreessen Horowitz: https://a16z.com/2019/02/24/apple-steve-jobs-software-product-design-process-ken-kocienda-creative-selection/

If you can’t get enough of these and want more than 5 articles, you can hang on to the firehose, the extended version of Petervan’s Delicacies in REVUE. Subscribe here: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/petervan

Edition-140 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• Already published in 2016, this essay by Neri Oxman proposes a map for four domains of creative exploration—Science, Engineering, Design, and Art: https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/ageofentanglement
• About the fifth Design in Tech Report by John Maeda from Automattic (the company behind WordPress): https://medium.com/@johnmaeda/design-in-tech-report-2019-post-launch-thoughts-e79c7675ecff
• Fantastic animation in support of fantastic meditation on the open web by Alexis Lloyd, Head of Design Innovation at Automattic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB5gaJloeRU
• A very promising video series by Tellart. The first video has Kavin Slavin from MIT Media Lab. Absolute brain-candy: https://www.tellart.com/projects/designnonfiction/
• Designers need to change the model of leadership to create a more diverse and critical industry, says designer Nelly Ben Hayoun. Design by subversion: loving it! https://www.dezeen.com/2019/03/15/design-power-structures-nelly-ben-hayoun-i-am-not-a-monster/

If you can’t get enough of these and want more than 5 articles, you can hang on to the firehose, the extended version of Petervan’s Delicacies in REVUE. Subscribe here: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/petervan

Edition-139 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About Rushkoff’s latest book “Team Human”. A manifesto for humanity: https://www.fairobserver.com/region/north_america/team-human-douglas-rushkoff-screen-addiction-tech-technology-news-44908/
• James Bridle about our relationship with the planet’s other alien consciousnesses: http://sites.barbican.org.uk/liferewired-jamesbridle/
• About executive sponsorship for building new capabilities. Another great post by @ribbonfarm: https://mailchi.mp/ribbonfarm/what-executive-sponsorship-actually-means?e=951a16bd6f
• About the law of property and free-riding on other people’s contributions. Reflective essay by Cory Doctorow: https://locusmag.com/2019/03/cory-doctorow-terra-nullius/
• Excellent talk (video) by Jonathan Zittrain on corporate surveillance and influencing of human behavior: https://youtu.be/8b-X2cDmDlE

If you can’t get enough of these and want more than 5 articles, you can hang on to the firehose, the extended version of Petervan’s Delicacies in REVUE. Subscribe here: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/petervan

Edition-138 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About the dystopian deficiencies of capability maturity models (CMMs) such as Lean Six Sigma, Lean Startup, Agile/Scrum. Fantastic read. Very very good: https://mailchi.mp/ribbonfarm/omega-learning?e=951a16bd6f
• About the Quartz 2050 project, an exploration of creative solutions to the challenges of urban living: stories of innovation by highlighting unique buildings in eight international cities: https://qz.com/se/the-2050-project/
• About the need to perform marketing to machines in a very near future: https://nexxworks.com/blog/marketing-to-machines-what-it-is-how-you-can-use-it-in-your-company
• About the debate whether reality as we know it might be a simulation. Great (long) week-end read with lots up updates: https://onezero.medium.com/is-the-universe-real-61ff508d32aa
• About children’s (and adults’) smartphone addiction. Almost poetic – but it still hurts – reflection by Sam Kriss: https://samkriss.com/2019/03/01/the-momo-signal/

If you can’t get enough of these and want more than 5 articles, you can hang on to the firehose, the extended version of Petervan’s Delicacies in REVUE. Subscribe here: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/petervan