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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Edition-126 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About Douglas Engelbart’s 1968 first public demonstration of word processing, text messaging, and a weird little device dubbed a “mouse.” https://mashable.com/article/mother-of-all-demos-douglas-engelbart-50-years/
• About fixing surveillance with sousveillance, and why personal data stores never will work: http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2018/12/we-cant-own-information.html
• About a mathematician looking at the everyday world with the eyes of a child: https://www.quantamagazine.org/tadashi-tokieda-collects-math-and-physics-surprises-20181127/
• About artists merging with engineers and the relationship between science and art (video): https://vimeo.com/228557512
• About 486,713 ways to get to Rome: awesome visualisation project: http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/an-interactive-map-shows-just-how-many-roads-actually-lead-to-rome.html

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Edition-125 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About Intimacy. This is very good. The internet’s quintessential, paradoxical message is “Only Connect.”: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/crisis-intimacy-age-digital-connectivity/
• About cyberwars: you are the territory. Excellent introduction to the so called “warm” wars going on at this very right moment: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/11/28/the-digital-maginot-line/
• About spacial computing by Robert Scobble: good intro and good resources and embedded links: https://scobleizer.blog/2018/11/26/spatial-computing-bigger-than-magic-leap/
• About the end of trust. Long (300+ page PDF) on what’s wrong about online trust and how to fix it: https://www.eff.org/document/end-trust-0
• About some recommendations to Zuck to make “good” software that meets users’ needs: https://medium.com/what-to-build/dear-zuck-fd25ecb1aa5a

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Edition-124 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About Joi Ito’s (Director MIT Media Lab) PHD dissertation on change. Your must read this week: https://www.practiceofchange.org/
• About best practices on platforms: Steve Yegge’s comparison of Google and Amazon platforms: https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611
• About better understanding reality through art, by the director of the V&A: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/nov/18/tristram-hunt-museums-v-and-a-interview-fake-news-labour?CMP=share_btn_tw
• About the human edge over AI: creativity and compassion: https://qz.com/1383648/automation-will-remind-us-that-we-are-not-defined-by-what-we-do/
• About your Arch-Nemesis by the super smart Eric Weinstein (MD at Thiel Capital) – Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZN-9RlGfRg

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Edition-123 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About bewildered machines and scientists and artists elevating each other: http://nautil.us/issue/66/clockwork/we-are-all-bewildered-machines
• About critical freshness: http://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-signal-network/
• About the politicising of the SWIFT payments system: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/11/how-trumps-game-of-chicken-with-iran-could-weaken-the-dollars-role-as-the-worlds-currency.html
• About the use of this connectivity still being only just the beginning. Great talk by Ben Evens from Andreessen Horowitz: https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2018/11/16/the-end-of-the-beginning
• About the famous 1962 quote by Arthur C. Clarke and some contemporary reflections on it: http://lab.cccb.org/en/arthur-c-clarke-any-sufficiently-advanced-technology-is-indistinguishable-from-magic/

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Edition-122 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About the delusion of decentralization: https://hackernoon.com/decentralizing-everything-never-seems-to-work-2bb0461bd168?gi=c007f1084f75
• About using Theory-U to address the main conflict between open and closed, not between left and right: https://medium.com/presencing-institute-blog/axial-shift-the-decline-of-trump-the-rise-of-the-greens-and-the-new-coordinates-of-societal-b0bde2613a9e
• About Luc Tuymans’ Sanguine exhibition: using masterpieces to create conversations across time about western image making, propaganda and globalism: https://observer.com/2018/11/uc-tuymans-predicts-trumps-reelection-art-revenge/
• About China’s next-generation power lines: a clean-power play or a global power move? https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612390/chinas-giant-transmission-grid-could-be-the-key-to-cutting-climate-emissions/
• About designing for a longer now, a bigger here, and a wider we. Brian Eno’s approach to producing music, through simple, open systems, should be adopted for the design of our towns and cities: https://www.dezeen.com/2018/11/09/brian-eno-architecture-planning-finn-williams-opinion-column/

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