(Looking through my notes and research on this last day of 20-frikkin-19. Of everything I read this year {written this year nor not}, these articles, threads, and stories took me someplace new. My own personal pantheon)
1. The Spy who came home: Why an expert in counterterrorism became a beat cop.
By @bentaub91, New Yorker, May 7, 2018 issue
(A visit with the remarkable @SkinnerPm)
newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…
By @bentaub91, New Yorker, May 7, 2018 issue
(A visit with the remarkable @SkinnerPm)
newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…
@bentaub91 @SkinnerPm 2. Greta Thunberg's remarks at at Davos
The Guardian, 25 Jan 2019
"Adults keep saying: 'We owe it to the young people to give them hope.' But I don’t want your hope. I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic… And then I want you to act"
amp.theguardian.com/environment/20…
The Guardian, 25 Jan 2019
"Adults keep saying: 'We owe it to the young people to give them hope.' But I don’t want your hope. I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic… And then I want you to act"
amp.theguardian.com/environment/20…
@bentaub91 @SkinnerPm 3. The Insect Apocalypse Is Here: What does it mean for the rest of life on Earth?
By @brookejarvis. NYT Magazine, Feature. 27 Nov 2018
"The most disquieting thing [was] the deeper worry…that a whole insect world might be quietly going missing"
nytimes.com/2018/11/27/mag…
By @brookejarvis. NYT Magazine, Feature. 27 Nov 2018
"The most disquieting thing [was] the deeper worry…that a whole insect world might be quietly going missing"
nytimes.com/2018/11/27/mag…
@bentaub91 @SkinnerPm @brookejarvis 4. Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change
By @NathanielRich, NY Times, 1 August 2018
"Their efforts were shrewd, passionate, robust. And they failed. What follows is their story, and ours."
nytimes.com/interactive/20…
By @NathanielRich, NY Times, 1 August 2018
"Their efforts were shrewd, passionate, robust. And they failed. What follows is their story, and ours."
nytimes.com/interactive/20…
@bentaub91 @SkinnerPm @brookejarvis @NathanielRich 5. See No Evil
By @miriamkp, @logic_magazine, Issue #4, Scale, Spring 2018
[About the pernicious effects of supply chains]
"this selective blindness…& this partial sight… is what makes global capitalism possible."
logicmag.io/scale/see-no-e…
By @miriamkp, @logic_magazine, Issue #4, Scale, Spring 2018
[About the pernicious effects of supply chains]
"this selective blindness…& this partial sight… is what makes global capitalism possible."
logicmag.io/scale/see-no-e…
@bentaub91 @SkinnerPm @brookejarvis @NathanielRich @miriamkp @logic_magazine 6. Danna's Explainer On Why Pundit (Analyst) Panels Are Bad
By @dannagal, Dr. Danna Young, 26 November 2019
"The game frame pits parties and groups against one another in an artificially constructed battle that fails to engage with the underlying issue."
By @dannagal, Dr. Danna Young, 26 November 2019
"The game frame pits parties and groups against one another in an artificially constructed battle that fails to engage with the underlying issue."
@bentaub91 @SkinnerPm @brookejarvis @NathanielRich @miriamkp @logic_magazine @dannagal 7. How tech's richest plan to save themselves after the apocalypse
By Douglas Rushkoff, The Guardian, 24 July 2018
"The future became… a predestined scenario we bet on with our venture capital but arrive at passively."
theguardian.com/technology/201…
By Douglas Rushkoff, The Guardian, 24 July 2018
"The future became… a predestined scenario we bet on with our venture capital but arrive at passively."
theguardian.com/technology/201…
@bentaub91 @SkinnerPm @brookejarvis @NathanielRich @miriamkp @logic_magazine @dannagal 8. How Social Media Took us from Tahrir Square to Donald Trump
By @zeynep Zeynep Tufekci, MIT Tech Review, 14 Aug 2018
“How did digital technologies go from empowering citizens and toppling dictators to being used as tools of oppression & discord?”
technologyreview.com/s/611806/how-s…
By @zeynep Zeynep Tufekci, MIT Tech Review, 14 Aug 2018
“How did digital technologies go from empowering citizens and toppling dictators to being used as tools of oppression & discord?”
technologyreview.com/s/611806/how-s…
@bentaub91 @SkinnerPm @brookejarvis @NathanielRich @miriamkp @logic_magazine @dannagal @zeynep 9. Raúl Carrillo on the failure of The Big Names
@raulACarrillo, 5 March 2019
"at Harvard, I had the privilege of learning economics from the Big Names…But the Big Names do not know -- or refuse to acknowledge -- what’s actually going down."
@raulACarrillo, 5 March 2019
"at Harvard, I had the privilege of learning economics from the Big Names…But the Big Names do not know -- or refuse to acknowledge -- what’s actually going down."
@bentaub91 @SkinnerPm @brookejarvis @NathanielRich @miriamkp @logic_magazine @dannagal @zeynep @RaulACarrillo 10. "25 Years of Wired Predictions: Why the future never arrives
By @davekarpf David Karpf, Wired, 18 Sept 2018
"Paging through the first 25yrs of WIRED, what’s most striking is that the future never becomes evenly distributed…the dinosaurs never die…"
wired.com/story/wired25-…
By @davekarpf David Karpf, Wired, 18 Sept 2018
"Paging through the first 25yrs of WIRED, what’s most striking is that the future never becomes evenly distributed…the dinosaurs never die…"
wired.com/story/wired25-…
@bentaub91 @SkinnerPm @brookejarvis @NathanielRich @miriamkp @logic_magazine @dannagal @zeynep @RaulACarrillo @davekarpf Looking back on it, it's a pretty dark list — but then again I think we're in a pretty dark place.
I'm grateful to the thinkers and writers who are helping all of us understand and think more clearly about the world we're living in — and who are giving us the courage to act.
I'm grateful to the thinkers and writers who are helping all of us understand and think more clearly about the world we're living in — and who are giving us the courage to act.
@bentaub91 @SkinnerPm @brookejarvis @NathanielRich @miriamkp @logic_magazine @dannagal @zeynep @RaulACarrillo @davekarpf This list 👆and bonus material, at usingdata.com/usingdata/2019…
Happy new year everyone. And be safe out there tonight!
Happy new year everyone. And be safe out there tonight!
