6 jun, 2016

Time to catch up with that newsletter

Door Bart Nijssen • Editie #5 • Bekijk online

Of course I did not forget my newsletter. It has been on my backlog for a while but I had some other priorities. Growing responsibilities at work (cool!) and growing responsibilities at home (yay!).

I’ve collected some stuff to share with you, my dear reader. But I also have to admit that I find it quite difficult to grow an audience with this newsletter. In email there is no such thing as a ‘like’, a ‘retweet’ or a ‘kudo’. If you like this newsletter I would like you to help me spread the word and maybe forward it to your like-minded friends and friendly co-workers.

Have a great day. Summer is on it’s way!

On humanity / privacy

WhatsApp Rolls Out End-To-End Encryption

This is already a little bit old news, but still a good reason for celebration. End-to-end encryption has just gone massively mainstream. However I am still not sure whether this puts an exit on messaging apps like Telegram and Signal (WhatsApp uses Signal’s (Open Whisper Systems) encryption protocol). Still a (big) downside is that WhatsApp codebase is not open-source, so the public cannot double check it on back doors and other peek-a-boo’s. But a good step forward!

www.eff.org • Deel

Sparking materialism

Dato DUO, a synth for two.

Dato DUO premiers at Kickstarter

I am pretty proud of my friend David Menting for premiering the Dato DUO on Kickstarter. David and his buddy Toon worked months on this synthesizer for kids. I really admire their stamina and perseverance on designing a ‘not so obvious’ product that is very close to their hearts. A great example of how interest (music and synths) and personal life (kids) influence the way you think and design. Have a look at their kickstarter project…

www.kickstarter.com • Deel

The listener

Ewald Engelen by Marijn Smulders (for De Correspondent)

Listen to Ewald Engelen (only in dutch)

I am intentionally lowering the amount of podcast I consume. One that came through was this conversation of Lex Bohlmeijer (De Correspondent) with Ewald Engelen.

Why listen? As a financial geographer Engelen wrote numerous articles and books and in this conversation he explains how his daughter influenced him to look at the world from her fresh and young perspective; from vegetarianism to ecology. Engelen talks on the up-scaling of society and how our debt-addiction leads us to what seems to be back to feudalism. Engelen wants us to all become shareholder in our own world, because we all ‘take’ a share in nature, environment and society.

decorrespondent.nl • Deel

Tech talk

Animated GIF from Soli (Google).

Wave hello to Soli

Next level touchless interactions made possible by Google project Soli. Quite cool.

atap.google.com • Deel

It’s a Tesla – Stratechery

Interesting piece on the often interesting blog Stratechery. In this article Ben Thompson sets out to understand why 276,000 people signed up for Tesla’s Model 3 within three days. By drawing a paralel to Apple’s release of iPhones and especially the iPhone 5SE (the low(er) budget version) he investigates how new technologies are made available for mass markets.

stratechery.com • Deel

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This might be a little contra of what I put in the heading of this email. But let’s try for one time to see if we can grow the audience for this newsletter.

I would appreciate your appreciation.

Rock on,
Bart

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