Weekly Filet #19: Fake It 'Til You Make It. And more.
Switzerland, 12 points: Weekly Filet #19 is out. You can view it in your browser or right below.
This week's top recommendation
This is a must read for anyone who - in a broad sense - creates. To create meaning: turning ideas into reality. Austin Kleon, who made himself known for his brilliant Newspaper Blackout Poems, is providing us with a list, that he claims is essentially "me talking to a previous version of myself". 10 things he wished he knew when we was younger. My favourite: "Fake it ‘til you make it". I gladly repeat myself: this is a must read.
→ How To Steal Like An Artist (Austin Kleon)
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Thought provoking essay, surprisingly living up to its bold thesis that "art and science are so nearly alike as to be indistinguishable".
→ Beauty, Charm, and Strangeness: Science as Metaphor (Science)
Let's talk personalisation, not privacy. Perhaps the real issue is not how much the world gets to know about us, but about how little we get to learn about the world.
→ The Filter Bubble (Brain Pickings)
Truth is: Technology has evolved massively since 1999, our general understanding of it hasn't.
→ How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet (The Sunday Times, 1999)
A frist class crime story. The end of which is still unwritten.
→ The People vs. Goldman Sachs (Rolling Stone)
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