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First Principle Politics
No amount of innovation will save the world from climate change, unless politicians across the ideological spectrum also do their part.
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Mode Confusion and the Future of Robot Design : Lessons from Human Factors Engineering
Human factors engineering taught us to minimise the risk for mode confusion. That’s highly pertinent when designing interaction with social robots.
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Why We Keep Referencing The Past To Feel Good About the Future, or: A Brief History of Skeuomorphism
Why did the disciples of Bauhaus hate Parisian metro stations? And is VR really virtual?
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Something Big is About to Happen, and Apple Won’t Like It : the Digital Markets Act and the End of the Walled Garden Strategy
Apple’s renowned “user friendliness” comes at a price, or at least that’s what Apple likes us to believe.
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The Cost of Optimism : Philippe Squarzoni, Climate Change and the Total Perspective Vortex
I recently read two novels about gay men in the midst of the AIDS epidemic. Their reluctance to take the test reminds me of my own feelings with regards to global warming.
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Why I Won’t Use The Best Software, Even When It’s Free
Productivity is hard. The more you realise what the optimal setup would look like, the further you get from starting to implement it.
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The Automation Paradox : Losing Mastery in the Age of Machine Assistance
The shift from nitty gritty to ever more elevated levels of abstractions has been a trend in technology for so long, that it almost seems inevitable.
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The Sim-To-Real Gap
While watching babies and kittens learn by doing is cute, you don’t want a soon-to-be autonomous car cruising your neighborhood to pick up traffic rules.
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Disruption Disrupted : How Big Tech Keeps Innovative Startups at Bay
Everyone who read Clayton Christensen *knows* that startups will eat incumbents for breakfast. That’s why they call it disruption!
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The Better Deep Learning Gets, the More Vulnerable It Is to Adversarial Attacks
These are not your ordinary run of the mill cyber security threats. Adversarial attacks don’t rely on exploiting bugs.
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Now You See Me, Now You Don’t : Adversarial Patching Brings Serious Trust Issues to Machine Learning
A brief seven years after Gibson’s far fetched futurism, science fiction has become a reality. Does that mean we’re screwed?
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Excellent Engineering Won’t Keep You From Solving the Wrong Problem : How Story Mapping Helps You Stay Aligned with What Matters
Teams like this can follow the tenants of XP and agile to the letter, and still build the wrong product. Teams like this need tools on a whole different level.
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Know Your Sh*t : Why Real Knowledge Comes from Deep Immersion
I was once taught a powerful know-what-you’re-doing lesson.
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Gone in 60 Seconds : Finding Meaning in a Single Minute
What would you do if you had a house full of actors unable to get in front of an audience for an indefinite period of time?
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The Power of Persistence : Why Showing Up Matters More Than Knowing Where You’re Headed
I recently passed my 666th consecutive day of studying Japanese. It made me think of Satan.