Francesco
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Francesco
Why barter and Embracing your ever changing job description
The section “a different kind of currency” speaks to why I believe in the usefulness of the skills bartering events we’re organising
Global mega-platforms under capitalism are structurally incapable of handling the business of civilization: of governance, of providing genuinely public infrastructure, of making knife-edge decisions about the balance of liberties and securities. It’s not what they do or what they want to do, and in many cases it’s in opposition to their actual... See more
Erin Kissane • Against the Dark Forest
If you're small, you're in a position where it's to your advantage to be weird—you can have a point of view that the big tech companies never could. In the world of chairs—you're not going to build a cheaper chair than Ikea. Why not build something they couldn't—like a more interesting one
(Not Boring) Software Inc. • No More Boring Apps | (Not Boring) Software
Some great photography included in this. Very inspiring in case I’ll ever (very unlikely but..) be involved in creative direction for a shoot or video
A great article on why SEO matters less than we think it does in some circumstances and why focusing on writing a well-informed and well-written article about an interesting topic is better than an “optimised” article written for the search engine’s sake
Good branding signals other things related to class and positionality – if an experience looks good, it’s because it was crafted at some point by a designer and a creative director who had the time, skills, and zeitgeist awareness to know what looks good (one of the founders of the swim club mentioned above is a graphic designer by trade, as an... See more
