As usual, an incoherent, irregular, unpredictable collection of interesting sparks. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• Rebel Wisdom’s Sensemaking Series is looking at the problem of truth in the digital age. Great series including notorious Jordan Hall.

• How Taiwan’s Unlikely Digital Minister Hacked the Pandemic
• Robert Scoble outlines the 2020 Technology menu: everything will be augmented, and computing to be ambient and spatial.
• Venkatesh Rao introduces the temporality stack and how minds and stories shaping each other.

• About planning vs. emergence. Citizen Jane (aka urbanist Jane Jacobs) thinking through the parallels between urban planning philosophies and internet ecosystems.

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As usual, an incoherent, irregular, unpredictable collection of interesting sparks. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About video visual literacy: Selfies and Beyond: Exploring Networked Identities

• About digital media warping our subjective sense of time and thrown us into a state of atemporal confusion. Super long but super interesting post by Aaron Lewis.
• About the last known transmission from the first solarnaut, Riley Campbell. Suspected dead from incineration during the 14th pass at the Sun, June 27th A.D. 2020. Very poetic!
• About architecting virtual reality spaces. By architects C. Fredrik V. Hellberg (Space Popular), Andreea Ion Cojocaru (NUMENA), joined by Voices of VR host Kent Bye. A real delicacy.

• About “particles and bonds” instead of “pages and links”. Super reflection by Alexis Lloyd (ex NYT Labs)

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An irregular, unpredictable, incoherent, unfocused set of mind-sparks that got me thinking. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About the end of efficiency. By Ana Andjelic.
• About the distorted experience of time. By Venkatesh Rao
• About crowdsourcing the unimaginable and unthinkable ideas. By Jane McGonigal
• About the undergirding of self-knowledge by space, location, scale, and time. By Ai WeiWei.
• About communities as the next frontier in creation and learning. By John Hagel

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An irregular, unpredictable, incoherent, unfocused set of mind-sparks that got me thinking. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About the “infodemic” (trojan horse)in the slipstream of COVID-19
• About time as an ideological simulation. Venkatesh Rao at his best.
• About a podcast with Jamais Cascio from the IFTF, who coined the term BANI. (Brittle, Anxious, Non-Linear, Incomprehensible). Also a good example of a well-produced podcast. As most readers know, I am preparing a 100% online immersive experience on BANI.
• About live versus dead players. Something to do with innovation capabilities.
• About Changeist’s Future Design Program.

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An irregular, unpredictable, incoherent, unfocused set of mind-sparks that got me thinking. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About Jamais Cascio’s BANI framework, more relevant than VUCA these days. Shameless plug: I am working on a virtual multimedia workshop on this framework, with a specific focus on possible responses.
• About the Yak Collective and its first Great Work. Have a look at how indie consultants disrupt McKinsey, BCG, Bain, etc.
• About the autopsy of the end of the experience economy. See also my own post from Jan 2020 on “The End of Experience”.
• About the triple-H population and their common vested inte­rest as a postindustrial class. Fascinating!
• A rather bleak opinion on the loss of sensory experiences. IMO also an opportunity to amplify those experiences to resonate at a non-cognitive level as well.

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An irregular, unpredictable, incoherent, unfocused set of mind-sparks that got me thinking. Only 2 weeks since the previous edition, but it feels like the harvest of a full month. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• A fantastic well researched set of premonitions on Culture, Brands, Space, Entertainment, Tools, Politics, Death. Very good, tout court.
• From attention economy to intention economy. Doc Searls – one of the authors of The Cluetrain Manifesto – condenses his thinking of a lifetime
• When a fashion show becomes a beautiful choreography (VIDEO)
• About artist Robert Rauschenberg: erasing the rules instead of breaking the rules (VIDEO)
• Lovely 90 min course on Design Unbound and Pragmatic Imagination by Ann Pendleton-Jullian. The sort of videos that want me to go back to school (VIDEO).

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An irregular, unpredictable, incoherent, unfocused set of mind-sparks that got me thinking. This time, Delicacies has a Corona-lockdown. I was trying to avoid yet another collection of COVID-19 articles; I am sure you have found plenty of sources on that subject. Instead, this edition of Delicacies hopefully brings some form of antidote, some oxygen, some sort of poetic pause. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• New and improved culture map by Simon Wardley, adding anchors for “WE” and “ME”. I would love to see Simon adding the morally right or wrong options.
• About the unintended consequences of user-centered design. By Alexis Lloyd
• About ritual and rites de passage. Poetic reflection by White Owl aka Fiona Tribe.
• About the uneasy conjunction of the normal and abnormal that daily life so often produces; a kind of spatial whistling in the dark. Don’t forget to read the epilogue. By Irit Rogoff.
• About Douglas Rushkoff hammering once more – but gracefully – the nails of algorithms, AI, and surveillance capitalism.

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An irregular, unpredictable, incoherent, unfocused set of mind-sparks that got me thinking. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About the four-period sequence in creating (architecture): Modularity, Computational Design, Parametricism and finally Artificial Intelligence. A real delicacy!
• About simulating traffic with AI around SF Golden Gate. Fascinating!

• About the return of simple/more complex ways to communicate with pure text. Death V9 of the blog? By Venkatesh Rao.
• About L.A.’s micro-mobility open-API to become the air traffic controller of the streets. Very interesting.
• About an experimental workshop on urban spaces, interactions, and institutions by Dan Hill and Bryan Boyer. Could be used for many other artistic interventions.

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An irregular, unpredictable, incoherent, unfocused set of mind-sparks that got me thinking. Irregular it is: just one week since the previous edition, but this week was, well… special. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About doppelgänger and digital twins, urban glimpses and drawing data. The broader context of data about cities, models of cities, and understanding and visualizing cities.
• About 2038, an international team of architects, artists, ecologists, economists, scientists, politicians, and writers, initiated in 2019, aiming to tell a (hi)story that today we call future > très spéciale 😉
• About The Everything Manifesto, a thought experiment for the next billion seconds and an introduction to ‘The Weirdness of Interdependencies’
• Venkatesh Rao freewheeling on narrative as a road in time, and stories as particular journeys taken along that road. Big fan.
• Amber Case explains: what looks cool in a science fiction film is frequently frustrating, distracting, and convoluted to use in real life.

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