Virtue And Seduction
This issue is about integrity, about artificial social media, and about co-creation.
In this issue we’re seeing how human’s dark sides distract David Bowie from his noble mission to save his home planet in The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), we’re discovering how social media platforms replace our friends by machine learning and artificial intelligence, and we’re learning from Edward Snowden about freedom of speech and independent media. And finally, in a new article we’re discovering how the right setting of joint working in a shared open space increases efficiency, creativity and determination.
✨ Sparks
🍿 Movie: The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
About an alien who travels to Earth, disguised as human, building multi billion dollar enterprises with advanced technology in order to fund a spacecraft to export water to his dehydrated and dying home planet. An intriguing theater piece about noble intentions that collapse under the pressure of human temptations, manipulation and politics, with a fantastic performance of David Bowie. Do yourself the favor and get through the lengthy beginning, the hook of this masterpiece will drag you soon. “Roeg’s work may have its faults - but its ambition is beyond reproach.” ⎯David Gritten
DISCLAIMER: This movie contains an abundance of explicit sexual scenes. If that triggers you, do not watch.
📝 Article: The End of Social Media and the Rise of Recommendation Media
Detailed description on how social media platforms move away from content recommended by friends towards content entirely curated by the platform, possibly towards a future of content which is solely created by artificial intelligence.
📝 Article: Lifting the mask
Edward Snowden sharing bits of his story, advocating freedom of speech and independent media.
I’ve been edited by editors, moderated by moderators, crammed into newspaper and magazine columns next to the ads for fancy wristwatches; I’ve had my thoughts contorted by character-limitations and tripped-up by threads, even before they were taken out of context and misinterpreted, accidentally and willfully.
Edward Snowden
🆕 New Content
📝 Article: Explode The Potential Of Your Creativity With Co-Working
Open office spaces are often unproductive and distracting. Learn the rules of successful co-working sessions, transform them into co-creation.
Ferdinand Kutschker
🙏🏻 Gratitude Journal
One of the most powerful daily practices to liberate yourself from mental downward spirals is to bring the things to your attention that you are grateful for.
- I recently moved to a new apartment and am grateful for its spaciousness and the wonderful working desk.
- I am grateful for the consistent connection to my mother that keeps growing in strength and gives me perspective and insight.
- I am grateful for my persistence to continue and develop this very newsletter.
What are you grateful for?
💡 This Week’s Wisdom
Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture.
From 1984 by GEORGE ORWELL.
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