Peter Vander Auwera - Issue #30

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“Personal is human. Personalized isn’t.” Always refreshing to check out again the 2015 version of the Cluetrain Manifesto.

This is a massive and high recommendable workout on the Democratisation & Escalation of Creativity — Chapter 01

An absolutely fantastic post about the transition from startup to corporate. Very very good.

Maybe it doesn’t faze you that your local police have a $400,000 device that listens in on cell phones. How will you feel when your neighbor has a $1,500 version?

A decade after taking over, Jeff Immelt’s long bet on the Internet of Really Big Things seems to be paying off.

Data and Society

Job decisions, college admissions, health care decisions: All are now being fundamentally altered by your big data, and you might not even know.

The potential resistance adds a wrinkle to a very public fight over access to an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers.

Zeitgeist

A British teenager has won $250,000 after placing first in the inaugural World Drone Prix in Dubai. 15-year-old Luke Bannister piloted his drone to victory along an outdoor track, using a camera...

New workplaces, new food sources, new medicineeven an entirely new economic system. Here are 10 new ways we can start transforming the w orld for the...

In a paradoxical way, our drive to be healthy may actually be a product of our anxiety. We sometimes seem to have so little control over our lives – our finances and work-life balance, where we live, our relationships – that being healthy is one of the few things we can determine for ourselves. For those who feel they are stagnating in their career and cannot afford to buy a home, focusing on health and fitness is a way to excel.

Innovation

The whole premise behind a Chief Innovation Officer goes beyond useless to completely and utterly counter-productive.

The 2 Types of Learning and Why They Matter

A conversation between Tim Malbon of Made by Many, Oliver Marlow of architectural practice Studio Tilt, and Jon Marshall of industrial designers Map Project Office.

The ride-hailing app is rewarding Lyft drivers with affordable car rental rates, cheaper gas, and speedy cash transfers.

Future of work

Too much teamwork exhausts employees and saps productivity. Here’s how to avoid it.

More companies are requiring a mix of technology and people skillsget prepared for the hybrid job.

Internet Culture

Looking back at a set of predictions from 1995.

FinTech

Distributed ledgers are the future, but their advent will be slow

Ripple Insights features industry updates, insider perspectives and in-depth market analysis.

A higher amount of transactions hitting the network will inadvertently lead to higher fraud rates, as the two can never be mutually exclusive in finance.

Vietnam is emerging as a technology market of note in Asia. Weeks after U.S. VC firm 500 Startups announced a fund for the country, Vietnam-based fintech..

Many are looking to the blockchain to solve many decentralization and consensus problems. I believe the infrastructure p…

The blockchain is comingand it's going to create huge benefits for the world's poorest people, from financial access to property rights to controlling...

"Wait a minute... Make up your mind. This Snow Crash thing—is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?" Juanita shrugs. "What's the difference?" - Snow Crash Cryptocurrencies will create a fifth protocol layer powering the next generation of the Internet. Humans don't *need* math-based cryptocurrencies when dealing with other humans. We walk slowly, talk…

The article talks about Voice Commerce & Voice Payments = The Future

AI, Robots, Algorythms

Machines could take 50% of our jobs in the next 30 years, according to scientists. Subscribe to The Guardian ► http://is.gd/subscribeguardian While we can’t ...

Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Data in Research

A single standard for smart homes and other connected devices sounds great, but some of the biggest tech firms don't seem interested.

Post Capitalism

In its mind, Silicon Valley creates the future, while the rest of the world will soon become the “idle class.” What if t…

Earlier this year, we visited Frederic Laloux at his home in Brussels. One of the things we experienced first hand was his love for wholeness.

Responsible businesses today tout the idea of something called shared valuewhere profits, customers, and the environment all benefit from a company's...

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Nassim Taleb

Tim Urban knows that procrastination doesn't make sense, but he's never been able to shake his habit of waiting until the last minute to get things done. In this hilarious and insightful talk, Urban takes us on a journey through YouTube binges, Wikipedia rabbit holes and bouts of staring out the window -- and encourages us to think harder about what we're really procrastinating on, before we run out of time.