Which art project have we spent the largest amount of cumulative time on? The one thing we can look at or experience and think: "wow, nothing else has taken as much effort as this to make me feel this way". Let's define "art project" broadly as anything that is designed to make people feel rather … Continue reading Humanity’s Largest Art Project
Author: Ernest Oppetit
Can we save the open internet by moving it to space?
The Internet is being split into very large private networks. The beautiful vision of 1 global network in which any 2 computers can communicate in the lingua franca of TCP/IP, enabling anyone to publish content to anyone else in the world, is dying. China has had the Great Firewall for 20 years, deciding which communication … Continue reading Can we save the open internet by moving it to space?
Podcasts I Listen To
Snapshot from my Podhero profile I love podcasts. I want to see what my friends and Twitter friends listen to, so I listen to podcasts on players that are making an effort on social features. To date that has been Breaker and Podhero: Breaker is more established, so has more people on it and better … Continue reading Podcasts I Listen To
Who to ignore (3 bullshit filters)
By Gabriel and Ernest Oppetit Unforseen shit happens. 9/11, the 2008 crash, Brexit, Trump, COVID-19... you know the story. These events surprised us because our information diets are dominated by people who didn’t see them coming. Many of these people are paid for sounding good (or protecting a certain interest), not for being right, so … Continue reading Who to ignore (3 bullshit filters)
My first podcast appearance (on Product Squad)
I spoke with my friend and ex-colleague Axel Sooriah on his podcast Product Squad. I listen to a sh*t ton of podcasts (around 4 hours per week), so it was fun to be a guest on one for the first time. We did the recording over Zoom a couple of months ago, then Axel worked … Continue reading My first podcast appearance (on Product Squad)
Highlights: How Everything Can Collapse by Servigne & Stevens
Summary Part 1: The Harbingers of CollapseTo maintain itself and avoid financial disorder / social unrest, our industrial civilisation is forced to accelerate. It needs to grow to get more energy, and it needs more energy to grow. The era of cheap & abundent fossil fuel is coming to an end.Increasingly complex civilisation, more interconnected, … Continue reading Highlights: How Everything Can Collapse by Servigne & Stevens
Smilebot: Transform Amazon Links to AmazonSmile on Twitter
TL;DR: Smilebot is a Twitter bot which, when mentioned, will transform amazon.com links in the mention (or original tweet if it’s a reply) and reply with the smile.amazon.com links. If you shop through the latter, you pay the same but Amazon gives 0.5% of your order to a charity of your choice. What's AmazonSmile? From … Continue reading Smilebot: Transform Amazon Links to AmazonSmile on Twitter
Running Resources
Get Hyped Born to Run by Christopher McDougall Such an amazing story, covering: The Tarahumara and what we can learn from their way of life & runningThe early days of ultra-running and the colourful characters in that world. Blow-by-blow stories of some incredible racesHow the heel strike was considered the ideal running style for so … Continue reading Running Resources
Highlights: Superforecasting by Phil Tetlock
From the book cover: In a landmark, twenty-year study, Wharton professor Philip Tetlock showed that the average expert was only slightly better at predicting the future than a layperson using random guesswork. Tetlock's latest project – an unprecedented, government-funded forecasting tournament involving over a million individual predictions – has since shown that there are, however, … Continue reading Highlights: Superforecasting by Phil Tetlock
LessNoise: Unfollow Recommendations for your Twitter Feed
Bucking a looong running thread of starting but never completing side-projects, I've kind-of "completed" LessNoise! LessNoise shows you unfollow recommendations for your Twitter feed. I've followed way too many people over the years, and my feed feels super noisy (particularly in the chronological view which I prefer). Here's the idea (described on the homepage): 👉 Check it … Continue reading LessNoise: Unfollow Recommendations for your Twitter Feed
