-
Petervan’s Delicacies – Week 11 March 2019
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… Read more
-
Petervan’s Delicacies – Week 4 March 2019
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… Read more
-
Petervan’s Delicacies – Week 25 Feb 2019
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… Read more
-
Petervan’s Delicacies – Week 18 Feb 2018
Edition-137 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy! Fantastic post on creativity and solid arguments why that will always be a human endeavor: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612913/a-philosopher-argues-that-an-ai-can-never-be-an-artist/ About Apple’s surveillance as self-care and the logic of screen timing: https://thebaffler.com/latest/scream-time-meyer About how to stop… Read more
-

The Cambrian Explosion of Identity
I have been thinking about “digital” (identity) for a while. Way back in 2003, I got infected by the digital identity virus at Microsoft in a research project related to the launch of the Belgian Electronic Identity (eID) card, a project that led to executive sponsorship of Mr. Bill Gates himself and meeting forward thinkers… Read more
-

Petervan’s Delicacies – Week 11 Feb 2019
Edition-136 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy! About a status quo with no illusion of ethics, morals, or humanity: maintaining this status quo is the core operating model of global management consultancies like McKinsey. By @jharche https://jarche.com/2019/02/extracting-human-value/ Like the medium is the message,… Read more