This month’s collection of new releases, spiced up with some oldies. There were some awesome new releases this month. Try it out. Play in shuffle mode to improve the surprise experience. Enjoy!
Monthly Archives: May 2021
Petervan’s Delicacies – 9 May 2021

As usual, an incoherent, irregular, unpredictable collection of interesting sparks. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!
- Ben Thompson of Stratechery is always worth a read. About Market-Making on the Internet
- An illustrated compilation of hybrid creatures of our time, equally inspired by medieval bestiaries and observations of our damaged planet.
- Carlos E. Perez in search for a verb for self or identity.
- For once not about crypto etc. Just some observations of a beekeeper watching bees as a fascinating example of a natural, decentralized system. By Phil Windley.
- Gerd Leonhard and friends just launched the Fork In The Road Project. This is a call for global action on 4 existential topics. Consider joining and signing the manifesto. First live online event on May, 13.
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. Also in this edition with loads of videos. Subscribe here: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/petervan
Petervan’s Delicacies – 3 May 2021

As usual, an incoherent, irregular, unpredictable collection of interesting sparks. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!
- Human systems are now so radically interconnected and interdependent that there is no avoiding this phase transition. By Patrick Hollingworth
- Great overview of the history of management by Niels Pflaeging. Mary Parker Follett vs. Frederick Winslow Taylor.
- Fascinating piece by Bratt Templeton on how much and what else AI-driven maps see what humans don’t see.
- Provocations for people working now to build tomorrow’s systems. By Omidyar and The Guild of Future Architects.
- Excellent long read by Benjamin Bratton who thinks in novel ways about “stacks” and what this means for governance. Below a talk by the same author.
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. Also in this edition with loads of videos. Subscribe here: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/petervan