This week: AI in art and science. Design Nonfiction. A tech supra-state? Greta. Hudson Yards. The tool to travel through layers. A year ago: How To Become A Centaur. The AI-Art Gold Rush Is Here Excellent read by Ian Bogost on a quite fascinating intersection of art, history, AI, blockchain, and money. It also connects […]
This week: Reading and Wandering. Economics After Neoliberalism. Economism, technocracy, and citizens. Magicverse. Aquaponics. A minister for the unborn. A year ago: Small b blogging. Rebecca Solnit on a Childhood of Reading and Wandering Great essay on libraries and forests, reading and wandering, and the connections between all. I felt like highlighting all the quotes […]
This week: Metamodernism. Everything is connected. The Big Nine and AI. Bezos on Blue Origin’s mission. Deutungshoheit. A year ago: The Art of Laser Focus. You don’t decide what you are more focused on, you discover the direction and the alignment. Metamodern Values for a Listening Society Excellent long interview with Hanzi Freinacht. It’s a […]
Naam on GND. Super-tall in NYC. Mirrorworld. Netflix expanding your interests. Insects. Peper Q&A with Harkaway. A year ago: Why Decentralization Matters. How to decarbonize America — and the world Ramez Naam expanding on his Twitter thread I linked to last week, with lots more detail. His central point is that electricity generation and transport […]
Back in the days of The Alpine Review, working on a photo spread layout with our designer, she mentioned aligning the eyes of a horse in one picture with the eyes of a sailor on the previous page. Élise said that even though most readers wouldn’t see the connection, she believed that they could sense […]
Because I’ve been meaning to try it again and time was a bit short this week: a different format for this issue, no categories, just a series of my most interesting / note-worthy finds. A year ago: The House That Spied on Me. No Good Reason to Trust Blockchain Technology Bruce Schneier with a methodical […]
This week: A high five that can’t land. Model Metropolis. A flâneur approach to social media. Micromobility. Greta Thunberg. The Big Here. A year ago: Post-work: the radical idea of a world without jobs A high five that can’t land Charlie Loyd beautifully weaving together stories about a bridge in Oakland, the Shinkansen to Hokkaido, […]
A very Warren Ellis issue this week. I couldn’t get his Normal and abyss gaze out of my head after reading the first couple of pieces below and I’m linking to him concerning book formats in Miscellany. Enjoy. A year ago: Ursula K. Le Guin passed and I linked, among other things, to her Rant […]
Quick note that I completely redid the template for this newsletter, partially based on the Tinyletter styling. I’m trusting their code but do get back to me if you encounter display issues. Intellectual humility: the importance of knowing you might be wrong Excellent piece at Vox on reasons for and signs of intellectual humility in […]
Welcome back and happy new year! Lots of stuff so lets get right to it. (Admin notes and announcements, if any, will now be found at the end.) The ‘Future Book’ Is Here, but It’s Not What We Expected Craig Mod looking at what “we” thought would be the future of the book and where […]
I try to not do this too often but a quick reminder that you can support Sentiers by becoming a Patron. Pitching in over the next couple of weeks would be super appreciated and useful to round out this first quarter of “patronizing.” Also very useful and appreciated is if you can forward to a […]
I would like to have more interactions with readers and amongst readers, get some form of collective intelligence going, something perhaps akin to a salon but virtual. Ideally without using a chat or messaging app. Interest? Ideas? Also, looking at early 2019, I’ve got some availability, hit reply if you want to work together! At […]
In case you haven’t subscribed to Sentiers at Work but find it interesting, I added a holiday pricing for 3 months so you can try it out or gift it to someone. Check it out. The Digital Maginot Line Lots to think about in this piece by Renee DiResta making a parallel between the French […]
The first issue of Sentiers at Work was sent to members on Friday morning, be sure to check your filters if you haven’t seen it yet. Lots of stuff this week, lets get to it! ⁓ We Are All Bewildered Machines “Bewilderment is the antidote to scientific reductionism.” The author, Nautilus’ features editor Kevin Berger, […]
Packed, packed days this week, but good things happening. If you are subscribed to Sentiers at Work, the first real issue is coming in a few days. If not a member yet, have a look. And for everyone, as always, using the link at the upper right and sharing broadly is always very much appreciated. […]
Over the last week, for a quick client research project, I skimmed through all 55 previous issues of Sentiers. a) I’m going to have to organize all the bits and pieces in something more useful than just text files. b) I used to have more section-like titles, depending on the week’s content, like in No.33 […]
Thanks to everyone who’s signed up to be a Patron or to receive Sentiers at Work, it’s very much appreciated, as are the very very flattering comments I got from a number of subscribers following the launch. 🤗 — Last issue, the most clicked link was: Exploring the Future Beyond Cyberpunk’s Neon and Noir. Mariana […]
Big news this week. I finally completed the prototype phase and the new website, I’m officially launching Sentiers at Work 🎉! It builds on all the research and reading I do at large and for this newsletter. It provides briefings to feed your curiosity at and around work, organisations, and careers. Please have a look […]
And we’re back! I hope you used the skip week to either catch up on past issues or do something relaxing. I wasn’t writing the newsletter but I did keep reading so this is actually a super long issue. For your own good, and for certain annoying Gmail restrictions, I’ve cut No.53 in two parts, […]
Last week was skipped for a little rest but I ended reading just as much, so No.53 is almost a two for one. Here’s “the rest” of what I wanted to share. ⁓ Tech A New Kind of Economy—An Interview with Andrew Yang Placing this under “tech” even though it’s politics because it’s mostly interesting […]
This week we have: The Automation Charade. Tim Berners-Lee’s Inrup. The Chia cryptocurrency. Plain, trains, and automobiles. IP and data in Toronto. In praise of mediocrity. Hidden details of the NYPL, and much more. Fall is here 🍂, make sure to take long walks outdoors, enjoy the colours where you have them, and don’t watch […]
Finishing this up later than usual, I hope everything’s in order! Big Sentiers week with the launch of a new website where you can see the archive of all issues and refer people for signing up. Only a couple of things are surfaced right now but there are a few other ideas being built behind […]
So this is issue No.50. I’d hoped to produce something special for it, either some twist on the content or some artefact to “commemorate” but in the end, it’s “just” a newsletter and, more importantly, I’ve spent some time on finally finalizing Sentiers at Work, the prototype of which I’ll be sending to a few […]
Harari twofer, lots and lots of tech topics this week, including an important copyright vote in Europe which I couldn’t really bring myself to write about more but it’s in there, you should read up. Also a longer than usual Miscellany section, including a couple that might be classified elsewhere but there you go, if […]
We need to teach our children to read, and to enjoy reading.We need libraries.We need books.We need literate citizens. — Neil Gaiman (see Miscellany, which is the “books section” today) Resisting Reduction: A Manifesto The MIT Media Lab director, Joichi Ito, proposing an interesting vision for the future. Contrasting the “religion” of the Singularity with […]