suggested reads for October 14, 2018

• “I Was Devastated”: Tim Berners-Lee, the Man Who Created the World Wide Web, Has Some Regrets
• Why Messaging Businesses is the New Normal
• Why Small Teams Win
• Why offices are becoming more ‘open’
• The Patients Who Don’t Want to Be Cured

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suggested reads for October 7, 2018

• Good Pressure, Bad Pressure
• Below the surface, Amsterdam
• WTF is dark pattern design?
• How Smart TVs in Millions of U.S. Homes Track More Than What’s On Tonight
• Sorry, Power-Lunchers. This Restaurant Is a Co-Working Space Now.

suggested reads for September 23, 2018

 

• What is wrong with Microsoft buying GitHub – “Foxes may change their coats, they don’t change their nature.”
• Why eight hours a night isn’t enough, according to a leading sleep scientist
• No one is opening those emails about privacy updates, and marketers are getting nervous
• How to structure your day better – also look at the other guides made available by Quartz;

suggested reads for September 16, 2018

• In Finland, Kids Learn Computer Science Without Computers
• GDPR Hysteria
• Teens are abandoning Facebook in dramatic numbers, study finds
• WordPress Turns 15: a Story of Survival, Ideals and Global Domination – there’s a lot here to be learned!
• How To Optimize Your Life And Work With The Dosage Principle

suggested reads for August 26, 2018

• • De-Googling my phone
  • Running an agency
  • What Self-Awareness Really Is (and How to Cultivate It)
  • How Foursquare knew before almost anyone how bad things were for Chipotle

 

suggested reads for August 12, 2018

• Why RAID 6 stops working in 2019
• The Productive Benefits of Journaling (plus 11 ideas for making the habit stick)
• If iPads were meant for kids
• Apple took 8 days to give me the data it had collected on me. It was eye opening.
• How to Run a Useless Conference – by mr. Seth Godin, written in 2005 and still true;

 

suggested reads for August 5, 2018

• Does the most talented succeed?
• Don’t Fix Facebook. Replace It.
• You’re Probably Underestimating What You Can Do With Your iPhone Home Screen
• 12 Things Everyone Should Understand About Tech

 

suggested reads for July 29, 2018

• What It’s Like to Quit Social Media as a Teenager in 2018
• Here’s How To Plug One Of The Biggest Privacy Holes In The Internet
• Bruce Schneier on Facebook and Cambridge Analytica
• It’s time to rebuild the web – The web was never supposed to be a few walled gardens of concentrated content owned by a few major publishers; it was supposed to be a cacophony of different sites and voices.
• Sorry for the Delayed Response

suggested reads for July 1, 2018

• YouTube and Pinterest Influencers Almost Never Disclose Marketing Relationships
• In praise of slow thinking in the internet age
• How It Became Normal to Ignore Texts and Emails

suggested reads for June 17, 2018

• It’s Too Late – After the Cambridge Analytica fiasco, Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is taking steps to secure data given to third-party applications. But it’s already been stolen and laundered.
• This Look Inside Spike Jonze’s Apple Ad Is as Fascinating as the Film Itself
• John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music

Two months after the scandal it’s interesting to see how mass reaction to the event was non-existent and now Facebook still operates as if nothing happened. Maybe GDPR is not perfect, but it shows that Laws can protect us when it seems we do not want to be protected.