Things That Caught My Attention, Volume 1

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45 of the best essays the first 50 episodes of Things That Caught My Attention, exploring technology, society, design, and being a person.

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Contents

Episodes 1-10

• Introduction
• Newsletters are the new... what?
• Better Living Through Data
• Any Sufficiently Advanced Economy
• Wearables, Wearables, Wearables
• Everything In Silos, Forever and Ever, Amen
• Followers and Friends

Episodes 11-20

• Introduction
• Jean Michel Jarre Reckons How Much Your Innovation Is Worth
• Oh, Attention
• Learning to Code
• Algorithmically Induced Sadness
• The Job To Be Done
• The Ethics Board
• Not Trying Is A Signal
• EasyHard
• Presence

Episodes 21-30

• Introduction
• Infrastructure
• Tango Down
• Hyperland
• Where Did All The Agents Go?
• Brittle
• The Scale of Things
• Washing
• From The Users Backward
• The Real Computer Revolution
• Only Connect
• They Stole Our Revolution
• Policy as Code, Continued

Episodes 31-40

• Introduction
• How The World Works
• Advances in Quantification
• BBC Heaven
• Why You Shouldn't Embrace Surveillance
• But What Is The User Need?
• Universal Service Obligations

Episodes 41-50

• Introduction
• When You're Part Of A Team
• Wearable Reckons
• danah boyd
• Facebook and Oculus Rift
• Computers, AMIRITE?
• Video is a content-type
• You Can Blame The Tools
• Mobile
• Fantasy Acquisitions
• Living In An Immaterial World
• Cities
• More Television