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Tech

NFTs make the internet ownable Why crypto is becoming the "port of entry" for all internet media. Before tech, I was an artist manager in music. When I started the firm, I believed one thing about the music industry very firmly: ownership endows power. Typically, labels had ownership over the music, and thus, power over artists.

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I Talked to the Cassandra of the Internet Age

The New York Times

Tech

Insight

I Talked to the Cassandra of the Internet Age The internet rewired our brains. He predicted it would.

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Next Nature

Design

Insight

Nurturing Architecture Millions of years ago, humans evolved on the savannah. There were no smartphones, cities or highways. Our living environment has changed completely. The way we currently build is not sustainable.

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Clubhouse and the endless cycle of social apps

Another Podcast

Tech

Insight

Clubhouse and the endless cycle of social apps Are social apps technology, media or pop culture? How many times can you re-invent the same forms?

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Breaking Smart

Insight

Anti-Network Effects "Governments around the world are working out the logistics problems of distributing billions of vaccine doses. It feels like a symbol of the times we are entering into, times that I think will be defined by anti-network effects."

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New York Magazine

Climate

After Alarmism The war on climate denial has been won. And that’s not the only good news.

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Aeon

Insight

How to be a genius I traveled the world and trawled the archive to unearth the hidden lessons from history’s most brilliant people.

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Other Species are Essential Workers, whose economies enfold our own.

Medium

Climate

Insight

Other Species are Essential Workers, whose economies enfold our own.Is human society collapsing because we don’t recognize the work and intelligence of other species?

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Design Matters

Mindfulness

Life

Design Matters: Marina Abramović Marina Abramović reflects on all the moments that made her the performance genius that she is today—in which the artist is, indeed, utterly present.

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Psyche

Mental

Health

How to be lucky Most of us think that luck just happens (or doesn’t) but everyone can learn to look for the unexpected and find serendipity.

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Here’s why you get gloomy in the winter — and what you can do about it

TED

Health

Here’s why you get gloomy in the winter — and what you can do about it If the darkening evenings and turning leaves induce a mild sense of dread in you every year, you’re not alone.

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"That’s not to say that fiction has no ‘value’ for self-development."

Offscreen Mag

Insight

"That’s not to say that fiction has no ‘value’ for self-development.""I think we can all agree that what the people creating new technology needs more of right now is the ability to step into the shoes of others who don’t think, look, or live like them."

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Tony Robbins Podcast

Business

Insight

The Future of Food, Energy and Space In this episode, Tony Robbins sits down with four extraordinary human beings that are working to solve major global issues, who believe so strongly in their solutions and have so much certainty that it’s almost contagious.

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The New Yorker

Life

Insight

The Art of Decision-Making In July of 1838, Charles Darwin was twenty-nine years old and single. Two years earlier, he had returned from his voyage aboard H.M.S. Beagle with the observations that would eventually form the basis of “On the Origin of Species.” In the meantime, he faced a more pressing analytical problem.

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30 Years Since the Human Genome Project Began, What’s Next?

WIRED

Tech

30 Years Since the Human Genome Project Began, What’s Next?In 1987, when researchers first used the word genomics to describe the newly developing discipline of mapping DNA, Eric Green had just finished medical school. A few years later, he found himself working on the front lines of the young field’s marquee moon shot: the Human Genome Project.

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Michael Pollan Explains Caffeine Cravings (And Why You Don't Have To Quit)

NPR

Health

Insight

Michael Pollan Explains Caffeine Cravings (And Why You Don't Have To Quit)After wrapping up his book about the potential therapeutic benefits of psychedelic drugs, author Michael Pollan turned his attention to a drug that's hidden "in plain sight" in many people's lives: caffeine. "Here's a drug we use every day.

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Don't just be the best, be the Only" with Kevin Kelly & James Currier

NFX Podcast

Business

Tech

Don't just be the best, be the Only" with Kevin Kelly & James Currier In this candid conversation with iconic tech thinker Kevin Kelly (founding Editor of Wired), we discuss inspirational and transformative advice for early-stage Founders reflecting on the work they’re doing, why they’re doing it, and how it all adds up in the long term.

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A Wave of Change: Jamie Margolin and Jane Goodall

Atmos

Climate

A Wave of Change: Jamie Margolin and Jane Goodall Over the last few years, youth activists have taken on the climate crisis as the cause of their lives, largely because it will determine the course of them.

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The Modern World Has Finally Become Too Complex for Any of Us to Understand

OneZero

Tech

Insight

The Modern World Has Finally Become Too Complex for Any of Us to Understand Vast systems, from automated supply chains to high-frequency trading, now undergird our daily lives — and we’re losing control of all of them.

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MIT Technology Review

Tech

Fair value? Fixing the data economy The data economy is facing a social reckoning, say leading voices in industry, government, and academia. But what went wrong? And how can we fix it? Each innovation challenges the norms, codes, and values of the society in which it is embedded.

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The Glorious, Almost-Disconnected Boredom of My Walk in Japan

WIRED

Digital

Life

Mindfulness

The Glorious, Almost-Disconnected Boredom of My Walk in Japan How I modified my digital tools to reconnect with time on a six-week, 620-mile trip on foot across the country.

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Digital

Life

The Price of Distraction In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Adam Gazzaley about the way our technology is changing us.

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Elemental

Digital

Health

The Cognition Crisis Anxiety. Depression. ADHD. Dementia. The human brain is in trouble. Technology is a cause — and a solution.

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The New York Times

Life

Yo-Yo Ma and the Meaning of Life The immensity of Yo-Yo Ma’s talent is such that he would be globally admired if all he ever did was appear onstage or in a recording studio and then vanish after the last notes faded from his cello.

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Other Internet

Business

Tech

Headless Brands While brands have traditionally been planned and designed directly by corporations, the rise of networked media has challenged the coherence of centrally-managed brand identities.

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@simondlr

Tech

Artistry In The Age of GPT-3 Imagine a story containing Claude Shannon, Alan Turing…and Harry Potter. Now, imagine it being written by an AI.

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Blockchain, the amazing solution for almost nothing

The Correspondent

Tech

Blockchain, the amazing solution for almost nothing Blockchain technology is going to change everything: the shipping industry, the financial system, government … in fact, what won’t it change? But enthusiasm for it mainly stems from a lack of knowledge and understanding. The blockchain is a solution in search of a problem.

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Yuval Noah Harari on The Story of Sapiens

Tim Ferris Show

Insight

Yuval Noah Harari on The Story of Sapiens Yuval Noah Harari on The Story of Sapiens, Forging the Skill of Awareness, and The Power of Disguised Books

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With Its Own Chips, Apple Aims to Define the Future of PCs

WIRED

Business

Tech

With Its Own Chips, Apple Aims to Define the Future of PCs Apple has long been the lone wolf of the personal computer industry in maintaining its own operating system instead of licensing Microsoft’s Windows as rivals do. Tuesday it struck out further from the pack, by launching its first laptops and desktops built on processors designed wholly in house.

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NFX

Tech

Status Games with Eugene Wei Status can be a volatile, powerful driver of engagement. Status and one of its underlying mechanisms, scarcity must be considered by product designers in every category, as early on as possible.

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Folch Insights

Business

Min Lew: doing good is good business “If we want design to be viewed as a business tool, we should start presenting projects through the lens of a business objective.” When Min Lew started out she believed she was in the business of ideas. Today, as Partner, Creative Director and Managing Director of Base New York, Min believes she is in a creative people’s business. Empathy, understanding, critical thinking and vision will be the key skills of the future.

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The Guardian

Design

The tyranny of chairs: why we need better design Most chairs aren’t designed to serve human bodies – but a better seat is possible.

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National Geographic

Climate

Is a world without trash possible?In Amsterdam I met a man who revealed to me the hidden currents of our lives—the massive flows of raw materials and products deployed, to such wonderful and damaging effect, by 7.7 billion humans. Our shared metabolism, you might say.

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SSENSE

Climate

Life

Rural Futurism We are constantly being told that more than half of the world’s population will soon be living in urban agglomerations. Countless biennials and books have questioned the way cities are changing...

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Morning walk through the forest, village and lake

Thisispaper Stream

Life

Morning walk through the forest, village and lake Soundtrack: 尾島由郎 - Biodome

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Are We Already Living in Virtual Reality?

New Yorker

Digital

Are We Already Living in Virtual Reality?

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Tight Media

Insight

The Evolution of Merchandise How T-shirts with prints changed the music industry.

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Openhouse

Life

Kumano Kodo Kumano Kodo is an ancient pilgrimage road located deep in the Japanese mountains south of the Kii Peninsula.

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YouTube

Life

Aphex Twin - Stone In Focus Video from Baraka (1992)

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Why 2020 to 2050 Will Be ‘the Most Transformative Decades in Human History’

Onezero

Health

Why 2020 to 2050 Will Be ‘the Most Transformative Decades in Human History’

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Platforms, Creative Communities, and the Need for a Radical Reimagining Insecurity is the internet’s original sin, yet officials are fighting to undermine the encryption technologies that protect our personal information.

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The curse of 'white oil': electric vehicles' dirty secret

The Guardian

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The curse of 'white oil': electric vehicles' dirty secret The race is on to find a steady source of lithium, a key component in rechargeable electric car batteries. But while the EU focuses on emissions, the lithium gold rush threatens environmental damage on an industrial scale

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Climate Science, Risk & Solutions More than 90% of climate scientists attribute the increase in global temperature over the past 30-40 years to greenhouse gases that humans have been adding to the atmosphere since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the 1700s.

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The mathematical case against blaming people for their misfortune Kenny Chow was born in Myanmar, and moved to New York City in 1987. He worked for years as a diamond setter for a jeweller, earning enough to buy a house for his family before he was laid off in 2011.

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Living online and IRL What happens when real life collides with your digital existence – the writer and ‘Poet Laureate of Twitter’ Patricia Lockwood talks to Andrew Marr.

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Wikipedia

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The Gene: An Intimate History The Gene: An Intimate History is a book written by Siddhartha Mukherjee, an Indian-born American physician and oncologist. It was published on 17 May 2016 by Scribner.

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