Recent Reading

An assortment of links that I’ve read recently, which seemed good enough that there’s a lingering tab open containing them, but not good enough that I’ve gotten round to turning that into a full blog post. So in lieu of that, I thought I’d just share them in a good old linkdump…

• The Gift of Doubt
• Paul Graham on Good and Bad Procrastination. Especially for this ice-breaker (or is it a friend-losing?) question: "What's the best thing you could be working on, and why aren't you?"
• Bill Thompson's #opentech talk
• An Aura of Familiarity - a collection of short stories about a possible networked future. Mostly rather dystopian, so maybe a warning of things we should steer away from towards nicer (but less exciting to write about ;-) futures
• James Bridle doing a great job of explaining how Test Match Special is exploring our attitudes to technology
• A warning salvo from the US of the problems of a world where the rich can segregate themselves from the poor - Detroit, and the Bankruptcy of America's Social Contract