Business

Tech in 2020

#201
Analst Benedict Evans has publised an interesting presentation on the state of Tech in 2020, from a talk he gave at Davos. The interesting presentation looks into how regulation may be the next societal step for the tech revolution to take.
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Tech

Copyrighting Every Melody

#200
In an attempt to stop music copyright lawsuits, Damien Rhiel and Noah Rubin, two programmer musicians algorithmically generated every possible 8 note, 12-beat melody combo and saved them to a hard drive. Once in tangible format, the work is considered copyrighted however because the MIDI data is numbers, and numbers are considered as facts in copyright law which have thin or no copyright claim, the music may be considered not copyrightable.
Business
Music

Diversity in Organisations

#198
Karla Thomas posted a fantastic helper post on medium for organisations looking to welcome diversity, by actually doing the work and not just saying "We welcome diversity". The post describes initiatives that companies need to adopt such as anti-bias training, HR policy reviews, holiday celebration and assessment tools.
Business

Zero Is The Hero

#193
Atlantic Philathropies, the organisation setup by Chuck Feeney to give away his huge fortune, has published their final report titled Zero Is The Hero. The report gives an overview of the amounts invested around the world in different industries. The fascinating story of Chuck Feeney is told excellently in the book The Billionaire Who Wasn't (affiliate link) by Conor Clery.
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History
Innovation
Motivation

Toyota Future City

#193
Toyota are planning to build a prototype city of the future called Woven City on 175 acres at the base of Mt. Fuji. The city will be fully powered by hydrogen fuel cells and it will feature segregated transport links for different type of autonomous zero emissions vehicles and state of the art robot filled smart residences made of wood using traditional Japanese wood joinery. The first population set of 2000 people will be employees, retirees and industry partners. Ground breaking is due to start in 2021.
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Environment
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Life
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Spec Writing

#190
Working in software, I sometimes run into problems convincing project stakeholders about the purpose and limitations of project specs. This blog post from Seth Godin about defining the problem first and aiming to solve it, rather than aiming to write a spec for it, is absolute gold.
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