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Petervan’s Delicacies – Week 8 Jan 2018
Edition-115 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy! About Holochain’s ICO Initial Community Offering, by Arthur Brock: https://medium.com/h-o-l-o/launching-an-ethical-ico-e21ed5738bb0 About personal metrics of success, by Nilofer Merchant: http://nilofermerchant.com/2018/01/10/why-the-metric-matters/ About thinking through self driving devices, AI, platforms, etc. by Nathan Waters: https://hackernoon.com/driverless-hotel-rooms-the-end-of-uber-airbnb-and-human-landlords-e39f92cf16e1?gi=a4d4f21dfb29 About… Read more
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Petervan Jan 2018 – Let’s do something interesting
My sabbatical has come to an end, and I left SWIFT on amicable terms mid Jan 2018. I also decided to drop the whole idea of Petervan “Productions” and killed the related website. It just simplifies a lot. The “Productions” branding of my work confused people more than anything. I am not in the event… Read more
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Petervan’s Delicacies – Week 1 Jan 2018
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… Read more
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Book of dreams (very short poem)
Ik droomde dat ik een boek over dromen las, en niet meer wist waar en waarom ik was rough translation I dreamt I was reading a book of dreams, and forgot where and why I was Read more
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Cockpit (poem)
Verstillen in het zachte licht, kijken naar dingen die niet bewegen, luisteren naar muisstille muizen Tasten waar geen houvast is Smaken waar geen papillen zijn Ruiken met de neus in de wind Op een tractor voren trekken in klei Een van Tesla, op elektriciteit Van stilte en kracht Het is zacht De wind waait hard… Read more
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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