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Sep
23
🧬 Digital? It's not only pizza-delivery!
Most of the tech and digital news this year have been rather depressing if you ask me. Between Andreessen Horowitz
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Sep
22
😱 Tardigrade vs. Zombie technologies
To end the week, I'd like to share an interesting find about a legacy technology that still survives against all
3 min read
Sep
21
🔴 How to kill a Facebook (or any network effect-based business for that matter)
We talked many times over about network effects and their indisputable power. The question today is: Is there a self-defense manual against them? Or "How to kill a Facebook"?
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Sep
20
🪆 The Russian brain drain
Fascinating tweet from Johannes Wachs a few days ago:
Preprint day: I measure developer brain drain from Russia since the
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Sep
19
🚀 Do we need more Silicon Valleys? (No)
I have been historically doubtful of reproducing innovation models imported from other cultures and ecosystems – I've been very polite right
3 min read
Sep
16
👩🏻💻 The Verge redesign matters (for us, too)
The Verge is one of the most famous consumer electronics and technology news websites. As of yesterday, they fully redesigned
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Sep
15
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⏮ 🔴 [ Looking back at ] 15 years of mentoring
Mentoring is now a wide-spread practice that is more or less loosely understood, but that is always of great promise. After working on this subject for about 15 years and obtaining a PhD on the very subject in 2012, I thought it would interesting to look back and reflect.
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Sep
14
🤖 Does an AI have the right to produce art?
Two weeks ago, a composition won the first prize at the Colorado State Fair. This composition wasn't produced by an
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Sep
13
🥸 Sales are a vanity metric
In the context of a looming recession, most governments think again that maybe big tech should start paying a fairer
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Sep
12
🔔The iPhone is wiggling
This August, I translated and updated an article from 2013 about how innovation is a cycle of reimagination, diversification, and
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