S04E05: A Digital Rights Cities Coalition
× Hi there. It's been a month since the last issue; take it as an indication of what my schedule looks like. I'm not saying this to complain, quite the...
S04E04: Square pegs, round holes
Sectors of divided Berlin × Hi there. Still working my way back to an Every Friday Schedule. It'll be another few weeks before we get there 😱 — until then,...
S04E03: Skim Reading & the Brand Experience
Gif based on New City: Taobao Village by Liam Young, 2018 × 👋 This week’s* reading is pretty lightweight and quite heavily influenced by Bruce Sterling, for...
S04E02: New realities
× As always, a shout out to tinyletter.com/pbihr or a forward is appreciated! × Howdy, Still working on getting back into some kind of rhythm. Working in a...
S04E01: A New Season, A Fresh Start
Sitrep: I started to write this Friday morning at 8:50am, on the train from Berlin to Cologne to talk at tonight's ThingsCon Salon about trust & tech...
S03E31 of Connection Problem: End of Season 3
Sitrep: Greetings from sunny Spokane, Washington. More concretely, from lovely Rocket Market, my favorite hyper local coffee shop/bodega hybrid in the...
S03E30 of Connection Problem: 🍾 30!
Sitrep: Welcome to the 30th installment of this newsletter season. Writing this at Toronto airport after an intense whirlwind tour of work things in NYC and...
S03E29 of Connection Problem: AI, weapons, databases
Sitrep: I'm writing this on a hot, sunny afternoon in Brooklyn. NYC is the first of multiple stops on a trip that's going to last about a month, working from...
S03E28 of Connection Problem: Data Barons
Sitrep: In a slightly mad travel logistics booking spree. I'll be traveling on short notice for a few weeks, so Things Have To Be Sorted. × × As always, a...
S03E27 of Connection Problem: Good Anthropocenes
Sitrep: Just back from an intense week of workshopping and travel. It looks like there's a sunny, relaxed weekend ahead. I hope you get to kick back a...
S03E26 of Connection Problem: The End of Enlightenment
Sitrep: Writing this on a long-ish series of train rides, at 7:52am, about 2h into the trip, fueled by train coffee. Proceed at your own risk. × × As always,...
Connection Problem S03E25: Ghost voices
Sitrep: I'm back from workshops and a ThingsCon Salon in Antwerp, Belgium, where I spent two days thinking through questions around IoT, ideation, design...
Connection Problem S05E24: Book-ish Stores & Cargo Bots
Just got back from a brief personal trip to the US. Good news: Traveling on a plane with an infant for the first time turned out to be not stressful! Bad...
Connection Problem S03E23: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Sitrep: Summer is upon us, at least temporarily. I'm pondering travel plans, trying to balance my 2018 resolution to cut down on non-essential travel and...
Connection Problem S03E22: The Mind Is Flat
Sitrep: It's Friday afternoon. I just picked up my office badge for Mozilla—turns out as part of my fellowship I get the key to the castle: It feels very...
Connection Problem S03E21: Living with Data in the Face of Adversaries
Sitrep: Home with a bug, but in good spirits. The sun's shining, there's a few days of mini holiday ahead, and the backchannels are running red-hot with good...
Connection Problem S03E20: Cities, fish & algo tags
Sitrep: It's the Easter weekend, which means a public holiday and a long weekend. (Fun fact: In parts of DE, Good Friday also means tanzverbot, or a dancing...
Connection Problem S03E19: The Reckoning
Last week, I forgot to include two items I meant to share. Let me start with those and then head on to the other news. Also, again I'm sending this on...
Connection Problem S03E18: Humans in the Loop
Sitrep: I'm typing this on a laptop which might or might not have a working X key. If you see a lack (or the occasional double) X, don't be surprised. The...
Connection Problem S03E17: Maintain the maintainers
Sitrep: I'm home with a hot cup of tea and a low fever, and just finished skyping into a meeting for Alexandra DS's #iotmark initiative (more on that...