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s5e01: Fully Connected, Feed Forward

0.0 Station Ident Last episode looked like as good a place as any to do a season break (even though it might not have been planned). So here we are at the beginning-ish of a new academic year, within...

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s4e14: The City Was Connected 

0.0 Station Ident I am, as they say, “between things” at the moment, which is its own set of opportunities and, uh, the opposite of what an opportunity is.Because I am between things and because I like...

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s4e13: A future of working 

0.0 Station Ident 12:40pm on Friday during a lunch break, in the middle of doing some sort of writing. This particular set of writing – typing for coins, as some of my friends have once described it –...

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s4e12: End of Process 

0.0 Station ident Thursday, 13 April 2017. Today is the day that I formally discovered the composer Max Richter, whose work I’d encountered in bits and pieces (the first Netflix season of Black...

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s4e11: We need to talk about algorithms 

0.0 Station Ident 7:56am on Wednesday 12 April 2017, and I’ve made a mistake – I am over an hour and a half early for an appointment. This is less than ideal for reasons of family and household...

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s4e10: Stages of Transformation 

0.0 Station Ident Writing this on Saturday, 8 April 2017 in the afternoon and it’s not a normal day to be writing a newsletter. I’ve spent some time in Sacramento this week having some meetings with...

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s4e09: Earl Grey, Hot (again, probably) 

0.0 Station Ident Wednesday, March 22, 2017 in the afternoon. Despite everything that’s going on in the world, I’m feeling pretty good today after taking time to look after myself. I’m (re)learning...

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s4e08: Write the future 

0.0 Station Ident Sunday, and I’ve just gone out for a walk because going for a walk is a thing you’re supposed to do. Unfortunately, thinking that you’re supposed to go for a walk is not a thing...

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s4e07: News and Religion 

0.0 Station Ident Friday, March 17, 2017. I just spent some time with a number of internet people talking and thinking about, well, digital stuff that doesn’t exist that could exist that would be...

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s4e06: Criticality 

0.0 Station Ident Wednesday, 15 March 2017 and a break from the usual newsletter programming and a continuation of s4e01: umbra[0]. What better way to deal with stress and anxiety by trying to do a...

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Episode One Hundred and Sixty Three: What The Network Does; How Do You Solve...

0.0 Sitrep 3:28pm, inside at home with what The Wirecutter calls The Best Room Fan busy, well, fanning me. It’s still hot in Portland, even now that XOXO’s finished. The sun is still outside, sleeting...

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Episode One Hundred and Sixty Two: The Difficult Third Album

0.0 Sitrep 11:03pm on a Monday, the Monday after the three-day XOXO Festival. Very tired. 1.0 The Difficult Third Album This is the third year I’ve been to XOXO[1], the self-billed “experimental...

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Episode One Hundred and Sixty One: Ecks Oh, Ecks Oh; Just In Time

0.0 Sitrep The first day of XOXO – the Social part. 8:06pm, at home, not being DJ’d to by Anil Dash. My turn – by choice – with our son tonight. A quite night. Tomorrow will be brain exploding. 1.0...

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Episode One Hundred and Sixty: After All; 2014 (7)

0.0 Sitrep My wife and I have two pieces of slang that we use around the house: the first, over text message, is invariably SITREP when one of us is looking after our son. How’s everything going? Has...

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Episode One Hundred and Fifty Nine: She Who Wears The Digital Crown;...

0.0 Station Ident 12pm on a Sunny Wednesday. Portland is putting on its glad rags for the just-over-a-thousand arriving for annual indie hug-fest XOXO, I’m sitting in a deli thinking to myself: why,...

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Episode One Hundred and Fifty Eight: WATCH; BERG

0.0 Station Ident Of course I’m not going to be able to resist and will be writing about the new WATCH today. 3:32pm and at home, taking about half an hour to write this before getting on with some...

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Episode One Hundred and Fifty Seven: The Mezzanine; Doing The Job; Minimum...

0.0 Station Ident 4:37pm, whilst the spare car, the one we would’ve sold by now but for the idiot accident that happened to us, is being cleaned. The strange situation where the car wash offers free...

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Episode One Hundred and Fifty Six: Space; Other Dyson Products; Not Yet, But...

0.0 Station Ident 2pm, 2 hours after my talk finished, a short metro ride to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. The talk went well – they mostly do, and the nervousness before it was the...

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Episode One Hundred and Fifty Five: “Web”“Content”“Strategy”; “Probably Not”;...

0.0 Station Ident 2:13pm after a nice lunch and stimulating conversation. Stupid jokes on Twitter about the new Dyson 360 Eye robot vacuum for which a teaser video basically screams: hey, did you see...

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Episode One Hundred and Fifty Four: The Networked Lens; Twitch; Sufficient...

0.0 Station Ident Is it really hiding if you’re telling a whole bunch of people you’re hiding? In any event: crashed in my hotel room in DC having made wonderful intentions of going to all of today’s...

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