Weekly Filet #132: Here to Kill Your Productivity. And more.
This week's top recommendation
I hope the MoMA has called him already: Computer scientist Josh Goldberg has created a complete remake of the classic Super Mario Brothers game for the browser. And that's not all. He open sourced the code so that everyone can edit it and create their own levels. Well, there goes your productivity for the day. You're welcome.
→ Full Screen Mario (Josh Goldberg)
Further recommendations
A nice roundup of the first seven days of street artist Banksy working his way through New York City. The «The Musical» mashups are brilliant.
→ All #BanksyNY, Seven Days Later (Animal)
On Lampedusa, spot-on. «Next time politicians across Europe express shock and grief and anger, remember this: they could have helped prevent it, and chose not to.»
→ A policy without a conscience (Pandemonium)
Opium and croissants for breakfast. Naked mornings. Martinis for lunch. Great read about what (and what rather not) to learn from the working routines of history's most creative minds.
→ Rise and shine: the daily routines of history's most creative minds (The Guardian)
Hello Inception: «Memory is like a Wikipedia page: You can go in and make changes, and so can other people.»
→ Elizabeth Loftus: The fiction of memory (TED)
Book recommendation
Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman
«Its an amazing insight into human thinking, how we perceive and how we understand. A truly underrated topic of great impact that everyone should have an eye upon in my opinion.» – Björn Beyer
This is one of over 50 recommendations by readers of the Weekly Filet, compiled on this list: Filter bubble bursting book recommendations (you can also add your own).