Notable Reads for 10 May 🔗

Perhaps it is more about paying attention to what matters for most people. What matters are the smaller bits. The digestible bits. What effects me today? What is the friction I can respond to which affects me/my family? The wider view is a harder one. It means you either are forgetting what’s in front of your nose for what’s in front of your feet; or that you are fully taken care of in those more immediate cares, willing to look at the macro-view towards how it will effect you. Themeing this week’s roundup around such a macro view — conversations like these aren’t frequent enough of all of our circles, perhaps by design.

• What to Expect From Marzipan — The Breakroom
• Inside Microsoft’s vision for the future of Windows, Office, and work - The Verge
• Opinion | Google’s Sundar Pichai: Privacy Should Not Be a Luxury Good - The New York Times
• Model and manage the changing geopolitics of energy
• Entrepreneural Reflectpns: Blackness, Privilege, Bikes & Red Tape
• Digital colonialism: US empire and the new imperialism in the Global South - Michael Kwet, 2019

A few opinions from here:

• Twitter Response to @round’s question: quantifiable measures of design
• Twitter Response to Google’s Pichai’s NY Times’s piece
• Flashback to April ‘18
• Tooling Between Communicating and Designing
• Notable Reads for 3 May 🔗

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