Recommended reading

  1. A podcast on tribe and belonging (in contrast to “neoliberal” life)
  2. Ethereum (a crypto-currency) will cut its energy use by 99 percent.
  3. China’s share-bike schemes are crashing and burning
  4. The podcast revolution is here to stay.
  5. A profile of the Chinese who censor the country
  6. Read this review of Surveillance capitalism: “Behavior modification is the thread that ties today’s search engines, social networks, and smartphone trackers to tomorrow’s facial-recognition systems, emotion-detection sensors, and artificial-intelligence bots. What the industries of the future will seek to manufacture is the self.” Related: Facebook knows everything about you when it sells adverts but not when politicians are asking about manipulation. I’m betting they are lying about how much they know and don’t know.
  7. Your friends may not be happy is you try to live without a smart phone.
  8. Forget counting calories. Eat good food.
  9. People have a hard time understanding logic and data. That doesn’t mean — IMO — that they should be voting on policies that affect the rest of us.
  10. How the Ostrom School limited Tragedies of the Commons

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Author: David Zetland

I'm a political-economist from California who now lives in Amsterdam.

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