Edition-132 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• A brain frying update and reset of what you thought you knew about platform thinking. Many new concepts and dimensions: https://stories.platformdesigntoolkit.com/the-real-future-of-the-platform-economy-838629ad3a77
• Interesting concept of data legibility. And why users taking control of their data may be oversimplifying the challenge. The author calls for global standards for data legibility: https://medium.com/doteveryone/data-legibility-and-a-common-language-coping-not-coding-part-2-8afb687de60
• An excellent review by Nicolas Carr of Shoshana Zuboff’s “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism”: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/thieves-of-experience-how-google-and-facebook-corrupted-capitalism/#!
• About maps of memory spaces and memory grid cells. Emerging evidence suggests that the brain encodes abstract knowledge in the same way that it represents positions in space: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-brain-maps-out-ideas-and-memories-like-spaces-20190114/
• A critical view on the singularity, and what if intelligence becomes a singleton, alone and bored: http://lab.cccb.org/en/the-singularity/

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Edition-131 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About the continued integration between technology and humans, and a call for a “Digital Magna Carta”: https://singularityhub.com/2019/01/09/how-can-leaders-ensure-humanity-in-a-world-of-thinking-machines/#sm.0001gw1yxj1dtpeivvd8wjme2wl2o
• About the decline of nations, alliances of nations, and national institutions by George Dyson in the first Edge New Year’s Essay: https://www.edge.org/conversation/george_dyson-childhoods-end
• About the surprising complementarity of money and speech (both data) in the context of financial regulations: https://medium.com/@hackylawyER/money-talks-how-digital-money-speech-challenge-existing-legal-frameworks-dd845a7ceaf7
• About the very personal curation the art show “Agency” by James Bridle, artist, journalist, technologist and author of New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future: https://mapmagazine.co.uk/unmasterable
• About the upcoming disruption of 5G. Great Techonomy interview with Verizon CEO Vestberg: https://techonomy.com/2019/01/interview-verizon-ceo-vestberg-5g/

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Edition-130 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About the need to stop talking and take our own responsibilities in building 21st-century institutions. Fantastic post. One of those you want to read 100 times: https://stories.platformdesigntoolkit.com/the-design-of-platforms-in-the-age-of-institutional-failure-bd296beeb8dc?gi=4f0bb644b247
• About bionic brains. Robots. Cutting-edge efforts to blunt the effects of climate change. The future of health care, and tech, and business. 2069 or what life may be like in the next 50 years: https://medium.com/s/2069
• About cities, streets, curbs etc sucking up your data. How organizations around the world are handling growing privacy concerns: https://www.cbinsights.com/research/smart-cities-data-sharing-privacy-initiatives/
• About strong bonds and high quality social interactions as the foundation for today’s workplace. Reflections by @jharche on the British Army latest recruitment campaign. See also the section on Aesthetics in the extended version of this Delicacies: https://jarche.com/2019/01/embrace-the-snowflakes/
• About community-based design vs Human-centered design. By the godfather of design Don Norman: https://jnd.org/community-based-human-centered-design/

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Edition-129 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. I did not expect so much good stuff coming out during the last week of the year. So, contrary to what I said last week, THIS is the last Delicacies of 2018. Enjoy the holidays’ festivities and renewed contact with family and friends. See you all back next year!

• About the Silicon Valley religion that humans are the problem and tech is the solution. By @rushkoff: https://medium.com/s/douglas-rushkoff/the-anti-human-religion-of-silicon-valley-ac37d5528683
• About Studio D by Jan Chipchase who is my inspiration for doing design, research and strategy consultancy right. His annual report, long and oh soo fascinating read: https://medium.com/@janchip/2018-end-of-year-report-19d36c54b3dc
• About software eating mobility and cars becoming smartphones on wheels. By @RikVera: https://nexxworks.com/blog/software-is-eating-mobility
• About the biggest technology failures of 2018: https://medium.com/mit-technology-review/the-biggest-technology-failures-of-2018-52eaf050751a
• About the role we allow technology to play in the future of food, and some sinister disaster scenarios associated with that: https://singularityhub.com/2018/12/23/eating-hacked-what-happened-when-tech-took-over-food/#sm.0001gw1yxj1dtpeivvd8wjme2wl2o

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Edition-128 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. This is the last delicacies for this year. Back in Jan 2019. Happy holidays.

• About Fjord trends 2019. A bit like Mary Meekers annual state of the union, but focused on design, with some refreshening insights and with a stunning beautiful lay-out: https://trends.fjordnet.com/
• About the ability to use one’s body with great precision, helping to facilitate the implementation your goals: https://exploringyourmind.com/what-is-kinesthetic-intelligence/
• About a design fiction on what could happen when technology is making people unhinged and violent: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612590/the-reunion-a-new-science-fiction-story-about-surveillance-in-china/
• About cutting the BS. Canning the excuses. Forgetting the fancy reports. Getting moving now. Getting the job done. Tom Peters reflects on a half-century spent studying management: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/blinding-flash-obvious
• About the funny unintended consequences om making the wrong predictions. Keep these ads in mind when you read the avalanche of trends for 2019: https://www.ranker.com/list/vintage-ads-and-drawings-that-tried-to-predict-the-future/ashley-reign?collectionId=2133&l=2674436&ref=collections

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Edition-127 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About criticool thinking and countercultures (and the illusion of it). Superb essay by Silvio Lorusso: https://medium.com/the-entreprecariat/the-designer-without-qualities-notes-on-ornamental-politics-ironic-attachment-bureaucreativity-40f09a618e2c
• About using tech to build a future centered on our pre-digital values of connection, creativity and respect. A must hear 10 min TED talk by @rushkoff: https://www.ted.com/talks/douglas_rushkoff_how_to_be_team_human_in_the_digital_future
• About Nelly Ben Hayoun Studios and extreme experiences. Awesome video of her talk at Re:Publica and giving me at least a LOT of energy. “Go for it!”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFnKeevb2d0
• About the evolution of different platforms on a 2 by 2 matrix: centralised/decentralised and for profit/for benefit. Fascinating talk by @mbauwens (no! slides ;-): https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/michel-bauwens-on-technological-sovereignty-in-the-transition-from-a-marxist-capitalism-to-a-proudhonian-capitalism/2018/12/11
• About a critical view by Carlota Perez on policy suggestions made by Brynjolfsson and McAfee in The Second Machine Age: http://beyondthetechrevolution.com/blog/second-machine-age-or-fifth-technological-revolution-part-9-final/

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