suggested reads for May 15, 2022

• The Five-Day Workweek Is Dying. And the implications for work and cities are going to be fascinating.
• Stop Wasting People’s Time with Meetings
• Facebook Doesn’t Know What It Does With Your Data, Or Where It Goes: Leaked Document
• 3 Tensions Leaders Need to Manage in the Hybrid Workplace

suggested reads for May 8, 2022

• Apple’s child safety features are coming to a Messages app near you
• Apple is trying to redefine what it means to violate your privacy. We must not let it.
• In internal memo, Apple addresses concerns around new Photo scanning features, doubles down on the need to protect children
• Best Font for Online Reading: No Single Answer
• Going cyberpunk and riding the vaporware: A look at retrofuturism – Take a deep dive with us into retrofuturism.

suggested reads for April 24, 2022

• WordPress User Roles and Permissions: The Essential Guide – la guida definitiva sui ruoli delle utenze WordPress;
• An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email – Apple’s Hide My Email feature is one of the most under-rated privacy launches of the past year, and here’s why.
• the next Google — “DuckDuckGo and Bing are not true alternatives – they’re just worse versions of Google. The next Google can’t just be an input box that spits out links. We need new thinking to create something much better than what came before.”
• Security List – Curated lists of tools, tips and resources for protecting digital security and privacy
• Contra Chrome

suggested reads for March 6, 2022

• Un invito a ridurre il consumo di media da Seth Godin
• What’s the next step for media (and for us)? – a post from 2017, which still stands true after all this time!
• Thoughts on Substack’s Subscription Model
• Apple AirTags – ‘A perfect tool for stalking’

suggested reads for January 9, 2022

• The Photos of the Year for 2021
• Privacy Reset: A guide to the important settings you should change now — “From Facebook to Venmo, staying on top of your privacy starts with these key settings”
• Tackling the ERC paradox — “Italian scientists win many grants from the European Research Council, but often end up taking their projects abroad. A new association of past winners wants to reverse the trend.”
• The Battle for Digital Privacy Is Reshaping the Internet – “As Apple and Google enact privacy changes, businesses are grappling with the fallout, Madison Avenue is fighting back and Facebook has cried foul.”

suggested reads for December 19, 2021

• Apple M1 Pro & Max Surprises
• Apple’s Long Journey to the M1 Pro Chip
• Neil Gaiman’s Top 13 Writing Tips
• Retro collectors are uncovering hoards of old data
• 6 Proven Ways to Know if Your Airpods Are Fake

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 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