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If you do one thing this week...This is wonderful. Sam Learner has created a visualisation tool that allows you to drop a raindrop anywhere in the world and follow its path down streams and rivers to see where it ends up. Completely fascinating (HT @Matt_Muir)
Links of the Week...
'Sometimes the centre of gravity in tech is very clear, but as we enter 2022 there are lots of areas where trillion dollar questions are wide open'. Some typically erudite thoughts from Benedict Evans on topics ranging from crypto, to privacy, the metaverse and cars
This was the week that everyone got excited/annoyed about a Walmart 'metaverse' simulation that turned out to have been from 2017. There was also this more recent one from H & M. My immediate reaction to both was just how bad/skeuomorphic they are, and how this will not be what the metaverse will actually be about (I hope)
Meanwhile Wunderman Thompson have created their own metaverse experience ('a new frontier of customer experience where the opportunities for brands are limitless'). I really don't want to be overly negative about stuff like this but it does all feel a bit like Second Life all over again
I'm a believer in reading diverse views around topics and this was a nicely provocative post from Stephen Diehl on why Web3 is bullsh*t. Pair that with this insightful post from Tim O'Reilly (the person who defined Web 2.0) on why it's too early to get excited about Web3
I'd not heard much about CES in Vegas this year (apart from BMW's app that changes the colour of your car) but that may well be because not many people went
This was also the week that loads of funny coloured squares appeared in newsfeeds as people played an addictive daily Wordle game. It turns out that it was created by a software engineer in Brooklyn for his word-game loving girlfriend
Readers of the NY Times Book Review have voted on the best book published in the past 125 years. The winner makes sense to me
Quote of the week: “If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.” Miles Davis.
The best quote I've heard in a long time, via designer @frank_chimero
Quote of the week (2): “Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.”
C.S. Lewis. (HT @keerti_007)
And finally... I'm not big on New Year's resolutions but Woody Guthrie's take some beating. The long list ranges from 'Write a song a day', to 'Stay glad' to 'Wake up and fight' (HT @brainpicker and @DavidTallon)
Weeknotes: This week I was easing back into work after an excellent break, and ran my first workshop for 90 female entrepreneurs in Africa as part of an EU and OACPS funded initiative. A privilege to be a part of it. Next week I'll be designing learning curriculums, writing trends reports, and doing a workshop with the leadership team at a Chinese bank.
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