This week's best things The importance of taste, AI’s impact on culture, and why boring beats hype. Plus product thinking, buy vs build, learning organisations, Gen Z heritage, bias, action traps, and the end of social media.
This week's best things From change fitness and polytunity, to Edinburgh’s innovation role and why councils should share more. Plus: taste as intelligence, AI tutors, immersive art takedowns, a reminder to join the new digital culture community, and System of a Down cover bands.
This week's best things Why artists matter to tech, the unexpected power of boredom, and a new AI tool made for the heritage sector. Plus: trees, cybersecurity, detox camps, and chocolate bar nostalgia. I read Wired, Heffernan, and Turnbull so you don’t have to. Also I saw a play and bought more books.
This week's best things A new community of practice, inclusive storytelling in museums, visual literacy as civil defence, team dysfunctions, mental health on TikTok, the cost of YouTube, the forgetting curve, AI’s limits, digital skills, art rate monitoring, and my enduring love for Sigur Rós.
This week's best things Google's new AI-powered products, an exploration of one-star reviews, managing your energy, preparing kids for the post-digital age, a discarded pineapple, and Australia's richest woman unhappy with a portrait.
How to remain curious? The idea of constant change is exhausting, how to stay curious when everything changes all the time