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Petervan’s Delicacies – Week 25 Dec 2017
Edition-113 of Delicacies. Last one of 2017. Happy new year! As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy! About cryptocurrencies and triple-entry accounting: https://hackernoon.com/why-everyone-missed-the-most-important-invention-in-the-last-500-years-c90b0151c169 About the big distraction blockchain is: https://hackernoon.com/ten-years-in-nobody-has-come-up-with-a-use-case-for-blockchain-ee98c180100?gi=d17f5df3dda8 About Studio D annual report and state-of-the-art design research: https://medium.com/studio-d/studio-d-2017-end-of-year-report-1919774c20b8 About Walter Pitts,… Read more
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Petervan’s Delicacies – Week 18 Dec 2017
Edition-112 of Delicacies: As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy! About structure driving culture, city/infrastructure, sharing spaces, ownership. An excellent reflection by Dan Hill: https://medium.com/butwhatwasthequestion/the-battle-for-the-infrastructure-of-everyday-life-6c9b0572e57f About the promise of blockchain. Well balanced manifesto by Don Tapscott: http://dontapscott.com/2017/12/blockchain-research-institute-manifesto-realizing-new-promise-digital-economy/ About spaces making people happy and… Read more
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Petervan’s Delicacies – Week 11 Dec 2017
Edition-111 of Delicacies: As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy! About the scary financial future of the millennial generation: http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/poor-millennials/ About Amazon being a machine to make a machine: https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2017/12/12/the-amazon-machine About peer-pressure and transparency in self-organisation: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/musings-social-density-niels-pflaeging/ About frictionless and/or minimalist design. A… Read more
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Trend-5: Structure drives everything
This trend is part of my five trends for human advancement. For an overview and background, check here: Kanaal Site – Axel Vervoordt – Wijnegem, Antwerp Deeply influenced by the work of Robert Fritz on structural conflict and structural tension, and that structure drives everything, I have become dissatisfied by the responsive reaction in many… Read more
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Trend-4: Everything important has to do Aesthetic, Moral and Spiritual advancement
This trend is part of my five trends for human advancement. For an overview and background, check here: During my sabbatical, I had the luxury of visiting many art related expositions and retrospectives. I have been particularly struck by the beauty ànd the intensity of work from artists like Dries Van Noten (celebrated Belgian fashion… Read more
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Trend-3: Coherence of narrative, motives, and governance
This trend is part of my five trends for human advancement. For an overview and background, check here: As described in trend-2, patrimony is stored memory of the underlying structure of an organisation. Culture as recorded know-how. To advance humanistic organisations we need to advance this structure. Structure is more than organisational structure like hierarchies… Read more