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Hi, hope you enjoy this week’s selection 🖖🏻

Quote of the Week

“Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.” —Steve Jobs

Tools

• StreetPass for Mastodon (streetpass.social)

  This browser extension helps you find people on Mastodon by surfacing the linked accounts on websites you browse.

Culture

• More Files Please (blog.jim-nielsen.com)

  Jim Nielsen wants more apps which operate on files. Me too.

• The internet turned into a crowded mall. Now you need a corner shop. (pithandpip.com)

  Matthew Guay describes that the future of the internet isn’t all-purpose socials, it’s focussed groups with a topic of interest.

• UI=f(org): UI is a Function of Your Organization (blog.jim-nielsen.com)

  Jim Nielsen explains why building a UI can have impact on how your organization is structured.

Working

• Seconds to Strategy: How Your Relationship with Time Shapes Your Career (auren.substack.com)

  Auren Hoffman says, there are five types of time, and explains how to choose a career that fits your timeframe.

• Working with Purpose, Forever (hakaimagazine.com)

  Maureen O’Hagan about the little-known business structure Perpetual Purpose Trust (PPT), which ensures a company stays true to its values, even after the owner leaves.

Cutting Room Floor

• Airfoil (ciechanow.ski)

  Bartosz Ciechanowski writes another interactive article, this time about airfoil, the streamlined body that can generate more lift than drag.

• How We Make Sense of Time (scientificamerican.com)

  Kensy Cooperrider & Rafael Núñez explain how different cultures have a different spatial understanding of time.

• The man who tricked Nazi Germany: lessons from the past on how to beat disinformation (theguardian.com)

  Peter Pomerantsev tells the story of Delmer, who worked against Nazi propaganda in the Second World War, and how some of his tactics should be used today.

• How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets—and Vladimir Putin (wired.com)

  Byron Tau tells the story of how the US Government found AdTech data for sale and is using it to track and identify individual people.