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• The Sharing Economy And The Future Of Finance | Things I grab, motley collection

  Originally posted on TechCrunch:

  Editor’s Note: Christopher O. Hernæs is Vice President of Strategy, Innovation and Analysis of SpareBank 1 Group, Norway’s second largest financialinstitution. He was previously a partner at Core Group, where he w…

• Two-thirds of cancers a matter of bad luck? Not so fast | Things I grab, motley collection

  Originally posted on Quartz:

  “Two thirds of cancers are due to bad luck,” or some variation of this, is the cancer-related headline of the moment.

  It comes from a newly published paper in the journal Science. The study, by Bert Vogelstein and Cr…

• 10 pieces of tech speak we should trash in 2015 | Things I grab, motley collection

  plerudulier:

  glad to read that ‘disruption’ is one of them.

  Originally posted on Gigaom:

  Time to circle back, tear down silos and pivot on those deliverables: 2014 was a banner year for the tech industry — at least when it came to spouting jarg…

• Everything I own fits in my backpack—this is how I do it | Things I grab, motley collection

  Originally posted on Quartz:

  About two or three years ago, I decided I wanted to start to declutter my life gradually. I count the following things as my belongings at this point:

  6 t-shirts;

  2 sweaters, 2 hoodies;

  1 coat;

  2 pairs of dress-pa…

• Why even engineers think working from home is a bad idea | Things I grab, motley collection

  Originally posted on Quartz:

  It seems intuitive that engineers and computer scientists would prefer working from home, since tasks like writing complex computer code require intense, solitary focus. But a debate started on Y Combinator’s Hacker N…

• Sharing economy: can innovation and regulation work together? • ©[paristechreview.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  Uber and Airbnb have undergone regulatory setbacks lately. But as regulators continue to crack the whip, there is little sign they will be able to stem the tide of popularity for these sharing services. Should the very idea of regulation evolve? I…

• Why we need creative confidence | Things I grab, motley collection

  Originally posted on ideas.ted.com:

  In 2012, IDEO founder and longtime Stanford professor David Kelley took the TED stage in Long Beach and shared a deeply personal story. It was the tale of his own cancer diagnosis, of finding a lump in his neck…

• Companies recast office break room as collaborative workspace • ©[latimes.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  For generations, office kitchens were hidden out of sight, an unloved necessity kept stark to ensure that workers didn’t linger.

  Now some companies are seeing office kitchens in a new light, turning them into gathering showplaces intended to boos…

• Forget Facebook and Snapchat: American Workers Still Need Their Email, Pew Report Says • ©[recode.net] | Things I grab, motley collection

  About six out of 10 working Americans surveyed recently consider email “very important” to their jobs, making it the most critical digital tool in the American workplace today, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center. About a quarte…

• The Anatomy of a New Year’s Resolution | Things I grab, motley collection

  Originally posted on TIME:

  Many of us who have used this time of year to turn our bodies around have fallen into the same cycle of failure: We’re frustrated with our size or weight, we vow that this is the year of skinny jeans, and we promise to …

• Good Riddance To Social Search | Things I grab, motley collection

  Originally posted on TechCrunch:

  Remember how not too long ago the future of search — at least according to the big search engines — was social search? Today, you’d be hard-pressed to find any mention of social search on Google or Bing (let alone…

• The Scoreboards Where You Can’t See Your Score • ©[NYTimes.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  The characters in Gary Shteyngart’s novel “Super Sad True Love Story” inhabit a continuously surveilled and scored society.

  Consider the protagonist, Lenny Abramov, age 39. A digital dossier about him accumulates his every health condition (high …

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• Innovate they ask; what’s in it for me I reply • ©[le-rudulier.eu] | Things I grab, motley collection

  Innovation seems to be my new entity’s new motto, there is even a team dedicated to it. As I changed position in the course  of this year I kept receiving, for a couple of months, news from my former entity where, what a coincidence, innovation is…

• We need open models, not just open data – O’Reilly Radar • ©[radar.oreilly.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  … if you’re not careful, modelling has a nasty way of enshrining prejudice with a veneer of “science” and “math.”Cathy has consistently made another point that’s a corollary of her argument about enshrining prejudice. At O’Reilly, we talk a lot ab…

• Managing Your Mission-Critical Knowledge • ©[hbr.org] | Things I grab, motley collection

  When executives talk about “knowledge management” today, the conversation usually turns very quickly to the challenge of big data and analytics. That’s hardly surprising: Extraordinary amounts of rich, complicated data about customers, operations,…

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• The secret to the Uber economy is wealth inequality | Things I grab, motley collection

  Originally posted on Quartz:

  Of the many attractions offered by my hometown, a west coast peninsula famed for its deep natural harbor, perhaps the most striking is that you never have to leave the house. With nothing more technologically advanced…

• 20 years later, Sask. teacher mails student-penned letters – Saskatchewan – ©[cbc.ca] | Things I grab, motley collection

  A retired Saskatchewan teacher is fulfilling a promise he made to his students 20 years ago — sending letters written by teenagers to their current selves.In 1994, as part of an English assignment, Fort Qu’Appelle’s Bruce Farrer had his Grade 9 st…

• The Problem With International Development—and a Plan to Fix It • ©[newrepublic.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  It seemed like such a good idea at the time: A merry-go-round hooked up to a water pump. In rural sub-Saharan Africa, where children are plentiful but clean water is scarce, the PlayPump harnessed one to provide the other. Every time the kids spun…

• You Need an Algorithm, Not a Data Scientist • ©[hbr.org] | Things I grab, motley collection

  Consider a company that is selling electronic devices. Let’s say that historically they have been selling well to companies that value their fast delivery and the quality of their product. As time passes, the competition grows and a global trend f…

• Bleak figures show a relentless slide towards a low-pay Britain | ©[theguardian.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  The graph […] may resemble a mountain range, all plunging valleys and soaring peaks. In fact, it tells a remarkable story of social and economic change, a story that ends bleakly for millions of medium and low-paid Britons – one of relentless forc…

• Intellectual property in China: Patent fiction | ©[economist.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  “WHAT has long been predicted has now become a reality: China is leading the world in innovation.” So declares a press release promoting a new report by Thomson Reuters, a research firm, called “China’s IQ (Innovation Quotient)”. The report highli…

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• How did Nick Hanauer get onto TED’s home page?! | Things I grab, motley collection

  Originally posted on TED Blog:

  Nick Hanauer and I are both really bad at holding grudges. Here, we talk before an in-office event last week. Photo: Ryan Lash

  There’s a bit of a back story behind today’s TED Talk, in which Nick Hanauer issues a p…

• One of Instagram’s Most Popular Users is Deleting All of His Photos | Things I grab, motley collection

  plerudulier:

  «When you have a large following, you begin to feel a particular sense of responsibility,» he says. «You begin to feel – I’ll be honest – a pressure for what you do»

  Originally posted on TIME:

  “Out with the old; in with the new.” T…

• Platform Cooperativism vs. the Sharing Economy — ©[medium.com] & @TreborS | Things I grab, motley collection

  The backlash against unethical labor practices in the “collaborative sharing economy” has been overplayed. Recently, The Washington Post, New York Times and others started to rail against online labor brokerages like Taskrabbit, Handy, and Uber be…

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• Tech journalism needs to grow up – ©[theweek.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  We are all familiar with what passes for technology criticism. The internet is stuffed with digital publications dedicated to reviewing the hardware and software issuing from Silicon Valley. There are the fetish-style videos in which gleaming mach…

• UK needs an ethics council and digital chief in every department – ©[theguardian.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  The UK government should establish an expert technology ethics body to help address complex challenges, including health monitoring, autonomous vehicles and legal disputes such as the right to be forgotten, an independent review has recommended.

  …

• Yes, newsrooms are shrinking — but journalism is growing | Things I grab, motley collection

  Originally posted on Gigaom:

  The latest wave of buyouts has hit the New York Times newsroom, with the paper essentially paying about 100 staffers to leave, by compensating them with up to three weeks of salary for every year they were employed. N…

• This quote about Putin’s machismo from Angela Merkel is just devastating – ©[vox.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  The incident of Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel, and the dog is a famous one. It was 2007 and Merkel, Germany’s Chancellor, was visiting Putin at his presidential residence in Sochi to discuss energy trade. Putin, surely aware of Merkel’s well-known…

• Stop Writing Dystopian Sci-Fi—It’s Making Us All Fear Technology – ©[wired.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  The news is bleak. With Ebola on U.S. soil, we are one infected monkey away from the plot of Outbreak. Russia is threatening to invade the Ukraine. We are blowing things up in Iraq again, where starving children are being massacred. There is overp…

• Being connected is more of a good thing than it is a bad thing | Things I grab, motley collection

  Originally posted on Gigaom:

  As smartphones and social platforms become more and more ubiquitous, debate continues over whether being connected all the time — even in a small way — is good for us, and that debate is probably never going to be set…

• Education in (mostly) plain English

  Education in (mostly) plain English is out! http://t.co/hCZLpkyxjQ Stories via @OUFreeLearning @aliceayel

• Peter Gray’s new book says kids need free play to thrive – ©[bc.edu] | Things I grab, motley collection

  “Playing with other children, away from adults, is how children learn to make their own decisions, control their emotions and impulses, see from others’ perspectives, negotiate differences with others, and make friends,” says Gray, an expert on th…

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• Trustbusting in the internet age: Should digital monopolies be broken up? | @[economist.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  ALTHOUGH no company is mentioned by name, it is very clear which American internet giant the European Parliament has in mind in a resolution that has been doing the rounds in the run-up to a vote on November 27th. One draft calls for “unbundling s…

• Getting Virtual Teams Right – ©[hbr.org] | Things I grab, motley collection

  “Virtual” teams—ones made up of people in different physical locations—are on the rise. As companies expand geographically and as telecommuting becomes more common, work groups often span far-flung offices, shared workspaces, private homes, and ho…

• How to best manage a journal of activities | Comment gérer au mieux un journal d’activités | Things I grab, motley collection

  Originally posted on plerudulier:

  It could almost be a rhetorical question … except that it is a real question, which I’m not sure I have the answer to.

  Ça pourrait presque être une question rhétorique … sauf que c’est une vraie question, pour l…

• Bird Perch over Montmartre | Things I grab, motley collection

  Originally posted on the Antimuseum in Paris:

  The bird perch (perchoir in French) is the name of an outdoor café on top of a building in Menilmontant. October 2014.

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  Filed under: curation

• Why nerd culture must die | Things I grab, motley collection

  Originally posted on Pete Warden’s blog:

  Photo by Attila Acs

  My first girlfriend was someone I met through a MUD, and I had to fly 7,000 miles to see her in person. I read a paper version of the Jargon File at 15 and it became my bible. Just rea…

• Serial: listeners of podcast phenomenon turn detectives – with troubling results – ©[theguardian.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  I fell into Serial, the new podcast that re-investigates a murder, the way they used to say one fell into bankruptcy: slowly, then all at once. I only tuned in once six episodes had aired, but then it became a binge. A dinner with a friend interru…

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• How much public space we’ve surrendered to cars – [vox.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  Most roads in the US are built for cars, not for pedestrians. Whether we’re happy or unhappy with this, most of us are aware of it.

  But this brilliant illustration, by Claes Tingvall of the Swedish Road Administration, shows just how extreme the …

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• Can mesh networks and offline wireless move from protest tools to news? » – ©[niemanlab.org] | Things I grab, motley collection

  From the protests in Hong Kong to Occupy and Sandy in New York, a new generation of tools is allowing communities to connect without using the Internet. Can they have a use in news too?

  In the rush to get from here to there, not many travelers in…

• 11 powerful and moving photos of the week | Things I grab, motley collection

  Originally posted on Global News:

  A commemorative installation at the Tower of London made of 888,246 individually crafted red poppies, each representing the lost life of a British or colonial soldier killed in the First World War, was completed …

• Comment la guerre de 14-18 a é

  Comment la guerre de 14-18 a éloigné les économies française et allemande http://t.co/3VdmcpMamR

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• The Future Of French Robotics | Things I grab, motley collection

  Originally posted on TechCrunch:

  Editor’s note:Laetitia Vitaud is a blogger, coach, teacher of U.S. politics in France and passionate about the digital transition of our economy.

  The French still dream of humanoid robots and electric sheep. Swed…

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• In the Shadows of the High Line – [NYTimes.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  WHEN the first segment of the High Line, the now-famous park built atop an old elevated railway on the West Side of Manhattan, opened in 2009, I experienced a moment of excitement. I had often wondered what it would be like to climb that graffiti-…

• How One Boy With Autism Became BFF With Apple’s Siri – [NYTimes.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  Just how bad a mother am I? I wondered, as I watched my 13-year-old son deep in conversation with Siri. Gus has autism, and Siri, Apple’s “intelligent personal assistant” on the iPhone, is currently his BFF. Obsessed with weather formations, Gus h…

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