Interesting Things on the Internet: May 15th 2017

• Composers as Gardeners: Brian Eno
• The Power of Dabbling: How Hobbies Make Us More Creative.
• Build a Better Monster: Morality, Machine Learning, and Mass Surveillance, Maciej continues to speak the truth about our industry.
• The Ultimate Guide To Being An Introvert.
• The Rock-Star Appeal of Modern Monetary Theory. 'It follows that currency-issuing governments could (and, depending on how you lean politically, should) spend as much as they need to in order to guarantee full employment and other social goods. MMT’s adherents like to point out that the federal government never “runs out” of money to fund the military, but routinely invokes budget constraints to justify defunding social programs. Money, in other words, isn’t a scarce commodity like silver or gold.' An interesting approach, particularly if you then pair it with...
• ...the idea that universal basic services are more important than income (that's behind the FT paywall, sadly)
• Consultative democracy and how do we combat mass manipulation? A good summary of what's wrong with politics at the moment, from Suw Charman-Anderson.
• WannaCrypt incident report? An excellent suggestion from Russell, about the aftermath of the NHS cybersecurity issue. That concept of building the body of evidence of what's happened, and how it was fixed, is part of why we track our to-do items for DoES Liverpool on an open issue tracker - the Somebody Should list. The information captured in the comments and links between the issues means the closed issues are as important and useful as the open ones.
• OpenTech 2017. Great notes from Kevin Marks condensing the full day of OpenTech into a much shorter read.