About maps not being the territory, also in business.
“Giving someone no map is much, much better than giving him a wrong map.” — Nassim Taleb
About humans, machine and work, a talk by Moshe Y. Vardi
About the role of art in creating global consciousness: the simultaneous existence of many different cultures, and the equal value of those cultures, everywhere, through the centuries, and right now. It’s a lesson that stands in exact opposition to the pall of intolerance in the air at present.
About ethics in code and much more. Talk on the “Future of Code” at the NASDAQ Startup CTO Summit. The amount of code in the world has been growing exponentially for years. And...
About corporate narratives, really. Inside a large industrial loft the air filled with excited chatter. Ringed with tables, posters and whiteboards, an eclectic group of…
About the American Dream is transitioning into ‘living life on one’s own terms’
Computers and robots relieve us of repetitive activities, so we can concentrate on the interesting parts of life and work. This began with the invention of the plow and applies even more so in the age of technology, says Sebastian Thrun, a prophet of the digital world.
About the illusion of control
The writings of the Jewish sage Martin Buber offer a distraction from election anxiety.
The book Data Ethics – The New Competitive Advantage by Gry Hasselbalch & Pernille Tranberg will be published in October 2016.
The president of Carnegie Mellon University, which will establish the center, said injecting ethical discussions into A.I. is necessary as the technology advances.
Insurer’s algorithm analyses social media usage to identify safe drivers in unprecedented use of customer data
A court case threatens the social network with multibillion-dollar claims.
Insurer withdraws initiative with hours to go as privacy campaigners criticise ‘intrusive’ attempt to analyse users’ data
The billionaire is the first major donor to back the idea of creating an atlas of all human cells.
Good news, my friends! The day we have all ostentatiously longed for has arrived. I come to announce that the days of sugar water are over. The era of SoLoMo..
There are many ways companies can enhance and accelerate their innovation endeavors, depending on their size, culture, organizational structure and other differentiators. Today, I want to aboard the latter and go deeper into the methodology of co-creation.
In a brilliant journey through the economic history of the western world, author Robert J. Gordon looks at The Rise and Fall of American…
You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you. Be stubborn on your vision, but flexible on details. Failure is necessary for invention. Take pri
In the face of artificial intelligence and machine learning, we need a new radical humanism, says Tim Leberecht. For the self-described "business romantic," this means designing organizations and workplaces that celebrate authenticity instead of efficiency and questions instead of answers. Leberecht proposes four (admittedly subjective) principles for building beautiful organizations.
A startup in Silicon Valley is challenging conventional hiring practices in the white, male-dominated world of tech by giving coders a platform to be tested on their raw talent. San Francisco-based CodeFights offers a gamified coding platform for job-seeking programmers to reach recruiters by performing well—but also anonymously—on coding challenges. First launched in 2014, the platform offers coders the opportunity to battle each other, or bots, and...
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Last week, I was fortunate enough to attend Programmatic I/O in New York. Here are some of the top trends I observed at the show.
Earthport (AIM: EPO), the leading payment network for cross-border transactions, is pleased to announce that Michael R. Steinharter has joined Earthport...
Twenty years ago, Brian Behlendorf helped kick-start the Web—now he’s betting the technology behind Bitcoin can make the world fairer.
Tomorrow, banking will be just part of a fabric of structure and we will think more about how we value things than about money itself
Below is the third installment in our series, AIML: Big Changes, Big Conversations. Taking AIML (Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning) a
IBM, Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Amazon created the partnership to bring more transparency to AI
Element AI is a the platform that helps organizations embrace an AI-First world for today and tomorrow.
Don’t get left behind.
Understanding the implications of the Internet of Things
It feels like the right time to reassert global consciousness in the universe of art. Even some of New York’s large and conservative museums have been thinking this.
Like on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LoandBeholdFilm Legendary master filmmaker Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, Cave of Forgotten Dreams) examines the past...
The renowned French architect Jean Nouvel begins his ambitious projects with small, sparse sketches that capture the essence of his ideas.
Take a look inside of 16 designers notebooks and learn about what they look for when considering different types design notebooks.
The top shelf picks in our Best Business Books 2016 roundup.
My good friend Rudy De Waele organises a Socratic Design Workshop for Business on November 25 at IET London: Savoy Place.
Socratic Design takes design thinking to the next level. Join this Socratic Design Workshop by Humberto Schwab together with Justine Kolata (The Public Sphere), Rudy de Waele (shift 2020), Yuri Van Geest, Canay Atalay (ex-Fjord Istanbul) and a group of international entrepreneurs and business leaders for a day of learning on how to create value-based organisations, products and services with this unique method and learn how your startup or organisation’s purpose can become the profit model of the future.
The workshop will be introduced with a presentation by Yuri van Geest, co-author of the highly acclaimed best selling book “Exponential Organisations”.
Learn more about Socratic Design in this Medium post by Humberto Schwab and Rudy de Waele on "How to create meaningful work and business”.
Rudy is offering two 20% discounted tickets for readers of Petervan Delicaciies. Only two, so be fast! Use code PeterVan to benefit the discount. Register at the Eventbrite page.
I am a big fan of Gerd Leonhard's speaking, thinking, and work in general. Great open letter to create an awareness about digital ethics that is not only silicon valley inspired. Follow the man ;-)
