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What we read this week (26 Oct)
Written by: Dorota
This week we read about that the continuity of thought is not necessarily a positive thing, geopolitics of energy, the Micheal Brutsch and Reddit case, drones and the modern design.
Read more »Week 107
Written by: Igor
Igor continues the documentation of our four-day work week experiment and combines it with opening thinking about how much time we spend on creating breadcrumbs.
Read more »What we read this week (19 Oct)
Written by: Maddie
Our reads of the week: Alexis Madrigal on Dark Social, what makes the recently launched GOV.UK so special, how to innovate in chaotic circumstances, a man with a FitBit in Paris and the “leakiness of surveillance culture.”
Read more »Week 106
Written by: Johannes
In this “classic” week note, Johannes looks back on recent travels and projects.
Read more »What we read this week (12 Oct)
Written by: Maddie
This week we read about Google’s neural network research, Nokia’s maps, “internet addiction,” K-pop, and the gendered side of the Quantified Self.
Read more »Week 105
Written by: Maddie
Learnings from the week past: avoiding unnecessary recursion in tasks, and balancing input and output in a four-day work week.
Read more »What we read this week (5 Oct)
Written by: Maddie
In this week’s reads: music that “thinks for itself,” economics and video games, the somewhat disturbing use of data in presidential campaigning, digitizing a personal library, and time-creation strategies.
Read more »Our second anniversary
Written by: Johannes
Two years of Third Wave already. Johannes takes some time to reflect on the journey and finds some insights into the core value of the company.
Read more »Week 104
Written by: Igor
Igor is reporting from his first input day in the first week of the 4-day-work week experiment.
Read more »What we read this week (28 Sept)
Written by: Dorota
This week we read about the new things we are not seeing, how to beat a community of hackers, the potential last resort for journalism and Etsy’s new policy adjustments.
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