Peter Vander Auwera - Issue #51

The very best

Fascinating chapter out of series on Situational Awareness Mapping by Simon Wardley. This chapter is about doctrine. So well written. Go till the end where he writes: "Telling a company that they need three types of culture, three types of attitude, a system of theft, a map of their environment and high levels of situational awareness is usually enough to get managers running away. It doesn’t fit into a simple 2 x 2." 

Simon Wardley will speak at Innotribe Sibos 2016 on Tuesday 27 Sep at 15:15pm

About a something i would call crowd-ethics. Another way to define, regulate and reward Digital Ethics. Programming the Algorithmic Social Contract

About aesthetic homogeneity in spaces, homes, AirBnB's and more. How Dataism makes everything look the same.

Technology promised to set us free. Instead it has trained us to withdraw from the world into distraction and dependency

Absolutely superb collection of essays and thinking on the future of work. By Esko Kilpi (ed.)

The iBrain is here — and it’s already inside your phone.

Can everyday distraction be a tool for productivity?

What do you do when reality has shifted? Imitate Andy Grove and face the new facts head-on.

I’ll start with my bias — I’m very optimistic about the superintelligence. Yesterday I gave two talks in Minneapolis. One was to an internal group of Targ…

‘The good old days’ is a virulent falsehood that infects those whose defences have been weakened by fear and insecurity

Data and Society

Airbnb announces a brand-new innovation lab called Samara, whose first project is a novel community center in Japan.

The future of work will require a lot of empathy and intellect, with a steadily declining need for brute burliness.

Zeitgeist

Gartner added 16 new technologies to the Hype Cycle this year, including blockchain, machine learning, general purpose machine intelligence, smart workspace for the first time. Smart machine technologies will be the most disruptive class of innovations over the next 10 years due to their computational power, scalability in analyzing large-scale data [...]

Innovation

The same is true for fintech hubs worldwide. In fact, their developers prove to be "advocates of traditional banks", rather than those of "fintech startups"

Results from our survey of HBR readers.

The industrial giant is investing big in an effort to adopt the nimble habits and digital wizardry of Silicon Valley. And, its C.E.O. says, there is no Plan B.

Future of work

The fixation on "culture fit" might be steering us wrong on both sides of the hiring table.

Internet Culture

4.5 years of working with Reid as co-author and Chief of Staff. Here are some lessons I learned about business and life from an amazing man.

FinTech

Why is the financial technology revolution happening now? Our expert on Asian financials describes the exciting technological developments that will change the way we all do business in the future.

An ex-Google engineer is reimagining banking for the digital age.

Big banks plan to coin new digital currency

The movement of capital around the globe is of paramount importance to an increasingly globalized society. As companies, workers and jobs become more fluid..

Fintech is en vogue right now, and for good reason. Trim’s digital assistant cuts unwanted recurring bills automagically. Mint tracks our expenses and helps us achieve our goals. Digit squirrels away bits and pieces into a savings account.  Venture capitalists, myself included, invested as much as $19B into financial technology [...]

AI, Robots, Algorythms

Because people on Earth don’t seem to have the time and money.

Om Malik on the hype about artificial intelligence, and the three stages of A.I.: recognition intelligence, cognitive intelligence, and virtual humans.

Post Capitalism

Why Behavioral Economics Is Really Marketing Science

Art related

The German filmmaker, whose new film “Lo and Behold” traces the rise of the internet, does not have a cellphone but says he is not a neophyte.

​The unusual engineering behind a legendary sound.​​

Other

July wasn’t just hot — it was the hottest month ever recorded, according to NASA. And this year is likely to be the hottest year on record.