S05E17 of Connection Problem: Privacy not dead anymore / understanding China
It’s interesting for me to see how this newsletter has really been taking the spot that used to be filled by my blog, especially the monthnotes +...
S05E16 of Connection Problem: Russian Trolls, Smart Cities, Vectorialism
Sit rep: I'm home-officing today so that our gas/heating/water measurements can be taken. Someone has to come in and do the reading semi-manually. This is...
S05E15 of Connection Problem: Indulgences / Teaching Trustable Tech / Lists of Lists for Tech Ethics
I’m sending this issue from the train between Frankfurt and Berlin, going some 200km/h or so, tethering via my phone. Welcome to the banal side of the 21st...
S05E14 of Connection Problem: A Smart Home for the Masses
We can finally see a black hole (kind of)! 👋 It’s a heads-down week of writing and research and calls and meetings, so just one quick note to kick things...
S05E13 of Connection Problem: Haltung is All We Have
Hello friends, This is coming to you from Valencia, where I am for the 5th edition of IFF, the Internet Freedom Festival. It's a slightly different crowd...
S05E12 of Connection Problem: 5 years / a greener web / a pattern language
Sitrep: This goes out from West Berlin (the coffee shop, not the former Western part of the divided city) right after a lovely conversation with an old...
S05E11: Tech Supra States
Greetings, earthling. This week's installment does not have one clear thread tying it all together. Instead, it's a little more fragmented; more comments and...
S05E10 of Connection Problem: Thursday Edition
At reader Peter R's suggestion I'll be trying out a Thursday schedule rather than sending Fridays: Weekends are a busy time, after all, and so we can see if...
S05E09: Your privacy isn't my privacy
× Hello & welcome to the influx of new readers this week. I'm curious — where did you stumble upon this newsletter? Why don't you hit reply & say hi! 👋 I'm...
S05E08: 21st Century Appropriate
× I'm writing from sunny Lisbon, Portugal, where I was invited to do a couple of presentations at a European IoT Large-Scale Pilot Programmes event. (It's...
S05E07: Data Bill of Rights, the 3 I's, Decarbonization
Today we're looking at some fresh thinking around data rights as well as decarbonization, and some pretty unexpected angles of potential surveillance. × ×...
S05E06: Politics/Futures/Trust
It's almost spring outside while I'm writing this, a crisp 4C but so sunny it feels much warmer. Nils Frahm's "Encores 2" is streaming over my headphones. A...
S05E05 of Connection Problem: Translation Layers
Seasonal Greetings (i.e. hi there!) I was going to write about facial recognition, and about artists and tech, and about the OpenDoTT PhD program selection...
S05E04: The Fight for Deutungshoheit
A huge Thank you! to all the support after last week's launch of my little experiment here, the Brain Trust membership. Your kind words and sign-ups mean the...
S05E03: Launching the Brain Trust
In today's installment: Launching a membership experiment. Thoughts on surveillance capitalism and a thought experiment for tackling a small slice of it....
S05E02 of Connection Problem: Whatever happened to Open?
Sitrep: Sitting at Café 9, the little coffee shop and roastery at Kreuzberg's Markthalle IX. It's a crisp and sunny 1C outside. Mild winter at its best....
S05E01: The New New Normal
Welcome to a new year - I hope you've been having a good start of it. You'll notice this installment of Connection Problem is titled S05E01. Season 4 kinda-...
S04E08: Let's launch a Trustmark, shall we?
× I'm writing this from my hotel room on Saturday afternoon after two days of event craziness: I co-hosted the annual ThingsCon conference in Rotterdam;...
S04E07: Launch Countdown
Daruma Otoshi, or as I now call it, the best game ever invented It's impostor syndrome time: I'm writing this in between making travel bookings as I'm headed...
s04E06: Trust Indicators
Berlin at dawn × It's 07:17am on flight SN2592 from Berlin Tegel to Brussels. I'm headed there for a workshop with FEPS, the Foundation of European...