2017

[The Outline] "The Death of the Internet"

12/4/17

There won’t be an internet where you can watch shows on Hulu then jump over to Gmail — you’ll watch Facebook TV and send Facebook Messages. Services that look and act like something distinct but are sadly part of a homogenized whole will also be available; Instagram and WhatsApp do this already. There you will be delivered ads according to your interests, interests predicated on the content you view, content promoted by bots and agents of a corrupt government and its many corporate and civilian allies. It will be a win-win for everyone but you.

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A conversation between Jay Z and the Times' editor in chief Dean Baquet

12/1/17

This interview between the Editor in Chief of the Times and Jay Z was incredible.

Really respect the humility and empathy coming from him in this video:

www.nytimes.com/video/t-m…

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"The Creator of Bitcoin Comes Clean, Only to Disappear Again"

10/19/17

I really loved this article from Longreads over the weekend. A thrilling piece of non-fiction writing about the rise of bitcoin and an ongoing investigation about the maybe-but-probably-not creator of Bitcoin.

On December 9, 2015, Craig Wright woke up to the news that two articles had come out overnight fingering him as the person behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. Reading the articles on his laptop, Wright knew his old life was over.

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PS: In case you've not heard of it before, Longreads is an online publication that non only pulls interesting long-form articles from the internet, but they also work on their own articles. You should check them out and consider supporting them to help them fight the good fight.

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About the #MeToo Movement

10/17/17

The goal of #MeToo, as Milano’s friend told her, was simply to give people a sense of “the magnitude of the problem.” 

Over the last day, I’ve seen the MeToo status pop up, without an explanation. But after seeing it multiple times from some of my female friends, I understood quickly what this was about. In the last 24h, the status has been tweeted 500 thousand times already. Think of the gravity of the situation.

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Final Fantasy IX, War, and WMDs

10/15/17

Cameron Kunzelman for Polygon has a great opinion piece this week about one of my favorite video games: Final Fantasy IX.

Final Fantasy 9 shows us the closest thing to a fantasy weapon of mass destruction that exists in video games.

I really appreciate the thoughts that went into this piece, especially given the current news and the constant will-they-won’t-they regarding our nuclear overlords.

If you’ve not had the chance to play through this wonderful Shakespearian experience, it’s available on PS4, iOS, and on Steam — which means you really have no excuse!

[≠] Final Fantasy 9 teaches us about war and how times have changed

Hipstamatic is still alive!

10/14/17

It's hard to believe it's been nearly a decade since New York Times photographer Damon Winter used Hipstamatic to create an award-winning photo for a cover story about the war in Afghanistan. It's even harder to believe that the app is still downloadable in close to its original form. It still takes three seconds to "print" your photo to a Polaroid-esque frame that loads in the bottom corner.

As someone who’s been using Hipstamatic on and off over the past few years, I’m yet to find a camera app with the same unpredictable feel!

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Brandwatch takes a look at eSports, the most underrated internet phenomenon of the past decade

10/9/17

Goldman Sachs valued eSports at $500 million in 2016 and expects the market will grow at 22% annually.

via eSports Data: The Huge Industry That’s Constantly Misunderstood | Brandwatch

[LINK]Things More Heavily Regulated Than Buying a Gun in the United States

10/3/17

This gem, from McSweeney’s.

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Security News This Week: The Deloitte Breach Was Worse Than We Thought | WIRED

10/2/17

“I am horrified but absolutely not surprised by this amount of data.”

via Security News This Week: The Deloitte Breach Was Worse Than We Thought | WIRED

Vlog 047: A week in Singapore

9/15/17

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Pilotfish — Making Remote Work ..Work!

9/14/17

Over on Remotive¹ this week, we were introduced to Pilotfish, and its founder Joseph. They’re a social enterprise tackling issues related to Mental Health for Remote Workers.

With the continuing rise of remote workers or location independent workers, there’s a lot of things to navigate through, especially for first timers. It’s not easy to go from a social open office environment where you get to see your coworkers in person every day of the week, to working alone at home (or even in a coworking space where you might not know people around you.)

Pilotfish has the potential to tackle this issue before mental health becomes a real widely developed problem for remote workers, in the same way that employees of big corporations can too often battle against stress and related workplace-related issues.

They’re tackling this issue before it becomes a real problem, from day one, and that’s something that we should all applaud and support.

On a more personal note, I was lucky enough, in my last full-time employee position, to be part of a team where we started testing out remote working once or twice a week.

It was a great way to “dip my toes in the water” and start learning about the discipline required, and the communication needed, to make it work. It wasn’t as easy as it sounds, and I made many mistakes along the way. But this led to me being in the position that I am today, lucky enough not only to work remotely full-time but also do it as a freelancer, while traveling around the world.

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