#BetterHumans
Research and content related to upgrading the human emotional operating system.
Collection by Chris Messina
betaworksventures.com
Betalab — Betaworks Ventures
· An early-stage investment program for startups aiming to fix the Internet. · Shared by 4, including Chris Messina
Betaworks
Introducing Betalab, lets fix things …
6 min · · The internet is broken. And yes, we tried turning it off and back on, but that didn’t work. · Shared by 21, including Chris Messina
theculturecrush.com
Mark Hurst On The Collective Actions We Need To Opt Out Of The Surveillance Economy — The Culture Crush
7 min · · An Interview with Tech Humanist Mark Hurst · Shared by 4, including Chris Messina
Beyond Philosophy
A Glimpse To The New Trends In Humanizing Technology
2 min · · by podcast on February 15, 2020 Social media has changed many things about our lives. Not only can we have a blow by blow account of what our friends and family are up to, but we can also see what… · Shared by 36, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Jonathan Kogan, Colin Shaw, Chris Messina, Katja Evertz
World Economic Forum
Read Yuval Harari's blistering warning to Davos in full
13+ min · · Shared by 209, including Yuval Noah Harari, Howard Getson, Bill Johnston, Matthias Lampe, Tom Connor, Chris Messina, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, jorge-ferrer, Nige Roberts-Willson, Jennifer Stirrup #MBA Topics: #AI #Data #Strategy, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻
The New York Times
This Is the Guy Who’s Taking Away the Likes
13+ min · · Adam Mosseri, chieftain of Instagram, wants to keep the platform a safe, special space. That means learning from the mistakes of its parent company: Facebook. · Shared by 46, including Chris Messina, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Katja Evertz, Matt Navarra, Design at Meta, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, Antonio Vieira Santos
WIRED
Bad Algorithms Didn't Break Democracy
2 min · · And better ones won't save it. To get past misinformation and tribal rancor online, we need to face why people really want misinformation and rancor. · Shared by 58, including Backchannel, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, luis antónio santos, Ste Davies, Jochen Burkhard, Chris Messina, Katja Evertz
The Cut
Who Would Tavi Gevinson Be Without Instagram?
20+ min · · Confessions from inside the algorithm. · Shared by 135, including Chris Messina, swissmiss, Liliane Ferrari ™, tylercowen, Mark Kaigwa, Fanzo, anildash.com, Mathew Ingram, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Grace Bonney, Carl Morris
Evening Standard
Digital pollution and online civility will dominate tech in 2020
5 min · · And with that, 2019 is almost over. We started the year with high hopes about sleep tech and the potential of augmented reality and ended it discussing folding phones and TikTok challenges. · Shared by 10, including Chris Messina, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
WIRED
It's Easy to Be a Jerk on Twitter. And Twitter Wants to Fix That
2 min · · Kayvon Beykpour, Twitter's head of product, admits the platform can still incentivize toxic behavior. In a WIRED Q&A, he explains how he wants to fix it. · Shared by 61, including Ines Bieler, Backchannel, Chris Messina, Mark Little, Kat, Katja Evertz, Matt Navarra, Jennifer Ouellette
IDEO
8 Emerging Trends That Can Help Companies Understand Their Future Consumer
6 min · · IDEO’s global teams reported the patterns they’re seeing heading into 2020 · Shared by 17, including Chris Messina, Oscar MacDonald
Y Combinator
> *make the most of it by progressing deliberately in your social life* Ironica...
2 min · · Here is my advice, as a married engineer, for those who are having difficulties in this area:1. Your fatalistic attitude about m/f ratios (or whatever sexual orientation you fancy) is the least… · Shared by 4, including Chris Messina
The New York Times
No More Phones and Other Tech Predictions for the Next Decade
5 min · · Despair not. What’s coming in the next few years might be a lot better than you expect. · Shared by 77, including Tobias Kopka, luis antónio santos, Katja Evertz, Thomas Power, Brooks Rainwater, Scott Brinker, Matthias Lampe, Stowe Boyd, Kara Swisher, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Roger Ehrenberg, Chris Messina
The New York Times
13 Ways to Be a Better Person in 2020
4 min · · You know the drill: new year, better you, from the Styles stories you read most. · Shared by 14, including Chris Messina
dougengelbart.org
Improving our Ability to Improve
20+ min · · Improving our Ability to Improve: A call for investment in a new future 0 Douglas C. Engelbart The Bootstrap Alliance April 23, 2002 (AUGMENT,133320,) Keynote Address, World Library Summit, April 23 -… · Shared by 5, including Chris Messina