Another thing we see — Nº4

NASA has uploaded the recordings from the Voyager programs golden record — a document of life on earth meant for alien contact — to SoundCloud and you can listen to it.

Although we have taken many beautiful things (and memories) with us from San Francisco when we visited a few weeks ago, one of our favorite things we discovered is the extraordinary book ‘California Surfing and Climbing in the Fifties’.

Nowness just shared this incredible house. “Perched on a lava field in southern Mexico City, Casa Pedregal (formerly known as Casa Pietro López) is the largest private residence designed by Luis Barragán, the country’s most prominent architect. Built between 1947 and 1950, the home was featured in advertising campaigns for urban development El Pedregal in Mexico City, a utopian solution initiated by Barragán to alleviate housing demands in one of the fastest growing cities in the world.”

An interesting read on messengers and the fragmented world of messaging apps.

Let’s talk! Just tell me where.

I love patches and I love denim.
The new denim brand Faculty launched with a really well curated collection of basics, and added this lovely set of 5 woven iron-on patches, made of a mix of subtle tone-on-tone grey thread.
Sweet!

Artist collaborating.
So good!

How To More Valuable Than Machines.

An interesting read on developing our most essential human abilities to survive the rise of computers, by Geoff Colvin.

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Success requires thinking about skills and value in a fundamentally new way.
It requires accepting that value is less about what you know and more about what you’re like.
It demands that you look not only outward for the skills you need, as we have always done, but also inward.
If you do all that—and only if you do all that—you’ll have little to worry about. You can be more valuable than any machine.
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The beautiful work of my favourite Dutch artist Marcel van Eden.

“When I’m working on a story, I often leave the bottom of the page blank. Sometimes I make 10 drawings and then I look for the story line. Sometimes I have a bit of the storyline and I search for the drawing that fits best with the story but sometimes it doesn’t fit at all, and I like that because then you have a kind of Dadaistic coincidence. You search for meaning, and question seemingly incongruous juxtapositions.”

The Monocle Travel Guide series reveals the favourite places in each city Monocle covered, from the ideal route for an early-morning run and the best spots for independent retail to detailed design and architecture pages and neighbourhood walks to get you away from the crowds.

Available at my favourite book store Mendo.

Some more good reads on things coming.
As shared on Singularity HUB

“…real success arrived when Ie stopped listening to focus groups…”
Thank you for that!

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I think self-driving cars are a little further out than most people think. There’s a debate about which one of two universes we’re in. In the first universe it’s an incremental path to self-driving cars, meaning you have cruise control, adaptive cruise control, then self-driving cars only on the highways, and you keep adding stuff until 20 years from now you have a self-driving car. In universe two you have one organization, maybe Carnegie Mellon or Google, that invents a self-driving car and bam! You have self-driving cars. It wasn’t available Tuesday but it’s on sale on Wednesday.
I’m in universe one. I think there’s a lot of confusion about how easy it is to do self-driving cars. There’s a big difference between being able to drive a thousand miles, versus being able to drive anywhere. And it turns out that machine-learning technology is good at pushing performance from 90 to 99 percent accuracy. But it’s challenging to get to four nines (99.99 percent). I’ll give you this: we’re firmly on our way to being safer than a drunk driver.
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Via I Never Knew — on Wiredhttp://www.wired.com/brandlab/2015/05/andrew-ng-deep-learning-mandate-humans-not-just-machines/

A beautiful photo essay of climbing the Col d'Otxondo on Elcyclista