Weekly Filet #201: Too hard to keep. And more.
1. Photos That Are 'Too Hard to Keep' (Vice)
A series of images that people have given away because they were «too hard to keep» for them. What makes this so powerful is that most of these images look downright ordinary and no explanation whatsoever is given. It's entirely up to your imagination why this particular image might have been «too hard to keep», and for whom.
2. Thinking Sideways (The New Yorker)
Smart essay on connecting the dots and why predicting the present is nearly as hard as predicting the future.
3. How data, not humans, run this Danish football club (De Correspondent)
A fascinating profile of little FC Midtjylland that tries to be as radical as possible in trusting algorithms' judgement, not people's – and it's paying off.
4. Why Mass Surveillance Can't, Won't, And Never Has Stopped A Terrorist (Digg)
An excerpt from security expert Bruce Schneier's new book «Data and Goliath». Read it.
5. Inventions – Maze of Woods (Bandcamp)
Spherical and rough, a beautiful new record by members of Eluvium and Explosions In The Sky.
Recommended by John Burn-Murdoch: Hanergy: The 10-minute trade (Financial Times)
Find out why for the past two years, 3.50pm in Hong Kong has been a golden moment in the soaring fortunes of Hanergy Thin Film Power Group, the $35.5bn solar company that has transformed its owner into China’s richest man.
March guest curator: John Burn-Murdoch is a data journalist at the Financial Times in London. He has authored some of the best interactives on sports I've seen lately. My favourite piece of his is on speedy skyscraper lifts, though. You can follow John on Twitter, which you probably should.