suggested reads for December 5, 2021

• The Cost of Context Switching (and How To Avoid It)
• The iPhone experience told by the accessories in the box — “The history of iPhone accessories tells us a lot about the iPhone user experience. Now, the iPhone 13 comes with just one cable in the box.”
• Facebook publishes slides on how Instagram affects teen mental health
• New study reveals iPhones aren’t as private as you think — Android phones collect more data by volume, but iPhones collect more types of data, a study finds;

suggested reads for November 14, 2021

• iOS 15 – Apple’s next-generation iOS operating system, available now.
• Apple CPU Gains Grind To A Halt And The Future Looks Dim As The Impact From The CPU Engineer Exodus To Nuvia And Rivos Starts To Bleed In
• 20 Reasons To Quit Social Media

suggested reads for November 7, 2021

• How Friendships Change in Adulthood
• 1000 dreams – 1000 Dreams seeks to change prevailing refugee narratives through a storytelling project that tells the stories of 1000 refugees across Europe. 1000 Dreams is entirely authored by storytellers with a refugee background.
• Il “collasso del contesto” sui social – ‘Why do innocuous opinions shared initially with a small, complicit audience often provoke disproportionate and polarizing reactions on platforms?’ … use a translator to get the most out of this Italian post;
• EU Prize for Women Innovators 2020

suggested reads for October 31, 2021

• Travel is no cure for the mind
• How to be at home
• Why CAPTCHA Pictures Are So Unbearably Depressing – TL,DR: They force you to look at the world the way an AI does;
• How to block Facebook from snooping on you – Seven steps you can take to keep Facebook and Instagram from gathering so much of your personal information outside of their apps;
• There’s no escape from Facebook, even if you don’t use it

suggested reads for October 24, 2021

• How to reduce video call fatigue
• My love-hate affair with technology
• 58% of Hacker News, Reddit and tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics
• Someone could be tracking you through your headphones

suggested reads for October 17, 2021

• What Is the Business Model for DuckDuckGo?
• How to Achieve Sustainable Remote Work – a long article by Cal Newport for The New Yorker;
• Why are hyperlinks blue? – a beautiful article on a topic seemingly trivial, which instead makes us retrace the evolution of the web;
• Even with Delta Variant, the Amazing Vaccines Are Saving Lives
• 5 Myths About Flexible Work

suggested reads for October 10, 2021

• 20 ideas for better data visualization
• How to Make Yourself Into a Learning Machine – Shopify’s Director of Production Engineering explains how reading broadly helps him get to the bottom of things;
• The CEO with an Empty Calendar – How the founder of Doist manages a team of 80 without meetings;
• Machine Learning’s crumbling foundations – Cory Doctorow on ML current development status;
• The Ideology of Human Supremacy — “The somber truth is that the vast bulk of nature’s staggering abundance has already disappeared. We live in a world characterized primarily by the relative silence and emptiness of its natural spaces. Underlying this devastation is the ideology of human supremacy—claiming innate superiority over nonhuman forms of life. But is human supremacy innate to humanity, or rather something specific pertaining to our dominant culture?”

suggested reads for October 3, 2021

• Coexisting with the Coronavirus — "COVID-19 is likely to become an endemic disease. How will our immune systems resist it?” … a bit long, but really interesting!
• The Most Important Question to Ask Yourself When Building Your Brand — nothing really new here, but interesting despite all;
• iOS 15 Privacy Guide: Private Relay, Hide My Email, Mail Privacy Protection, App Reports and More – MacRumors lists all the news into the lastest mobile operating system by Apple;
• WordPress Block Patterns. What they are and where to find them
• Walking as a Productivity System — How walks create the foundation of Craig Mod’s creative work;