McFilter: September 2015 Archives

September 28, 2015

What Happens Next Will Amaze You. Maciej explaining (with great style) how advertising and the web is broken, and how we can fix it.
Interview with Brenda Laurel. Great insight into gaming, and its possibilities.
Without Scars: Domestic Violence, Abuse and the Tech Pipeline.

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Metadesign For Murph, and How To Organise Your Library and you can listen along to John's talk too.
Open Labour. Interesting post from James Darling with glimpses of how a 21st-Century political party might be organised.
Product Land (Part 3). Excellent post (and source of the last link) from Richard Pope about the challenges in "digital".
Why Futurism Has a Cultural Blindspot. Don't believe the (tech) hype.
Sharing Economy: Three Critical Pieces. A good piece on things like tool banks as well as AirBnB/Uber/etc.

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Do Artifacts Have Ethics? Had this lurking in a tab for too long. A good set of questions to ask ourselves when we create any technology.
Close at Hand. An interesting history of which objects we've kept about our person, and how.

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Five years, building a culture, and handing it off. Fantastic post about building a tech company's culture, from Etsy's (now former, presumably) CTO.
Blinded by technology: has our belief in Silicon Valley led the world astray? Turns out technology isn't going to solve all our problems. Who knew?
Tech nerds are smart. But they can't seem to get their heads around politics. US-focused, but most of it applies to the UK too, and follows nicely from the last link.
Developer inequality and the technical debt crisis.
Refugees. A summary of links for more info and how you can help with the refugee crisis, from a good friend of mine. He's been over to Jordan a couple of times to help out.

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