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August 2019

Meet Kinzen
Another world is possible beyond Facebook and Google
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Rich
Dismantling macho engineering culture
Inside the React furore
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You're a product manager, not a futurist
...And you're certainly not a healthcare expert
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Bitcoin, chatroulette, and how to survive Amazon - 3 things to read
Welcome to Friday - I’m all out of ideas for the week, so here are some suggestions for things to read this weekend…
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Domino's war on web accessibility
Here’s a topic that rarely gets thought about: web accessibility.
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Humans required
Facebook is hiring journalists to curate news
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The unseen labour of algorithm training
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how labour is hidden by technology.
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Science fiction isn't just a Silicon Valley think tank
What’s the point of fiction?
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In praise of echo chambers
Is there really anything wrong with the social media echo chamber? Despite liberal commentators and right wing firebrands blasting them as bastions of…
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Tumblr nostalgia
Online(TM) feels like such a hellish place that it’s not surprising to see the outpouring of nostalgia that has accompanied the news that it’s being…
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WeWork and the hollow rhetoric of business
There are a lot of truly hideous companies out there enabled and emboldened by tech, but one of the absolute worst has to be WeWork.
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