Edition-107 of Delicacies: As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About thinking like an algorithm. Disturbing: http://www.bldgblog.com/2017/11/the-ghost-of-cognition-past-or-thinking-like-an-algorithm/
• About humans becoming the last slavery line in large scale robo-commerce. Also disturbing: https://gizmodo.com/amazons-last-mile-1820451224
• About the absurdity and delusion of blockchains: http://magazine.ouishare.net/2017/11/blockchain-degeneration-of-an-ideal/
• About practice redesign and edge workgroups to learn faster and accelerate performance improvements: https://dupress.deloitte.com/dup-us-en/topics/talent/business-process-redesign-performance-improvement.html
• About the societal obligations of platform companies: https://medium.reinvent.net/can-a-society-ruled-by-complex-computer-algorithms-let-new-ideas-in-1eae52d6c3e8

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Edition-106 of Delicacies: As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About a very disturbing trend of industrialised nightmare production and systematic and automated infrastructure violence. Highly recommended. But highly disturbing as well: https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-internet-c39c471271d2
• About fundamental rethinking car functionality: here the example of the steering wheel, why do we still have that? Video from WebSummit 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VFRyb3mpfs
• About the irresponsible strategy of social media to consume as much of your time and attention, creating addiction and consciously not caring about the consequences: http://calnewport.com/blog/2017/11/10/sean-parker-on-facebooks-brain-hacking/
• About Otto Scharmer’s U.Lab new initiative with MIT and HuffPost to create a movement to transform capitalism: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/5a06ef9ce4b0f1dc729a6b39
• About Ray Kurzweil rehashing the coming singularity, adding nation-state, longevity and human freedom. Be skeptical if you ask me. https://singularityhub.com/2017/11/10/3-dangerous-ideas-from-ray-kurzweil/

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Edition-105 of Delicacies: As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About the current “television-internet” and a set of updated platform principles – start of a new cluetrain manifesto? http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2017/10/30/on-platforms-and-sustainability/
• About the end of the Coase firm and the need to cultivate ecosystems: https://www.uktech.news/tech-city-voices/the-nature-of-the-ecosystem-20150925
• About what happens if your work becomes machine unreadable: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2017/10/machine-unreadable.html
• About real-real, fake-fake, fake-real and real-fake. Watch the first part of this session with Scott Smith (@Changeist): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhwXacDaq-E
• About handmade data visualisations without the framing of smartphones and AI: http://www.designindaba.com/videos/conference-talks/can-we-use-our-own-data-become-better-human-beings

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Edition-104 of Delicacies: As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About engaging in music, literature and the arts being essential for understanding context and human behaviour: https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/videos/why-economists-need-the-arts
• About the balance between design and recipes. Strong metaphor for organisational and technology design: https://medium.com/design-matters-4/a-new-approach-to-designing-smart-cities-b33443a4d968
• About the state of photo-real CGI (Computer Generated Images): http://www.creativeapplications.net/news/goodbye-uncanny-valley/
• About your net(work)-worth: http://edgeperspectives.typepad.com/edge_perspectives/2017/08/measuring-your-real-net-worth.html
• About the design of technology for Blade Runner 2049 (contains spoilers): https://www.engadget.com/2017/10/20/designing-the-technology-of-blade-runner-2049/

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Edition-103 of Delicacies: As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About the privatisation of public space: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/21/google-urban-cities-planning-data
• About the long excellent argument by Adam Ludwin (CEO Chain) on the value (or not) of cryptocurrencies: https://blog.chain.com/a-letter-to-jamie-dimon-de89d417cb80
• About taking back our human agency from smartphones: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609104/smartphones-are-weapons-of-mass-manipulation-and-this-guy-is-declaring-war-on-them/
• About MIT’s “conformable decoders” aka human digital implants: https://medium.com/mit-media-lab/launching-a-lab-7b02413072ad
• About the education young people need today: https://medium.com/the-mission/hayek-and-camus-walk-into-a-school-810f04fe24be

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Edition-102 of Delicacies: As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About “virtue signaling”, hypocrisy and the erosion of trust: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/08/magazine/virtue-signaling-isnt-the-problem-not-believing-one-another-is.html
• About the scientific study of cultural evolution: https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/the-complexity-of-cultural-evolution-63e28e117f6b
• About the power of trust in today’s relationship economy: http://co-matter.com/work/community-podcast-3-jerry-michalski-power-trust-todays-economy/
• About beauty as an experience of proportion and harmony: https://transitionconsciousness.wordpress.com/2017/10/09/guest-article-fritjof-capra-on-beauty/
• About the depressing gig economy and what’s next: Crowdtap. https://theoutline.com/post/2393/the-only-job-a-robot-couldn-t-do

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