Inntense Restobar
Inntense Restobar sounded like a combination of the year we’ve had and what we’d like. Unfortunately, the experience was intensively dissatisfying thanks to the delays and below average food.
Inntense Restobar sounded like a combination of the year we’ve had and what we’d like. Unfortunately, the experience was intensively dissatisfying thanks to the delays and below average food.
The printing press was once called the biggest source of distraction, but technology has come a long way since then, and made sure that it is extremely difficult to not get distracted! Nir Eyal provides a systematic guide, keeping things simple, to navigate our personal and professional lives and become “indistractable”.
On one hand, the pandemic has taught us the value of empathy, on the other, marketing efficiency continues its race to convert the customer into a numerical possibility. Can a brand then be truly empathetic?
Industrial capitalism exploited nature and gave us the bounty of comforts we enjoy in the modern era. Surveillance capitalism is exploiting human nature. The consequences are that there is increasingly no refuge, no sanctuary, from the relentless efforts of corporations that are intent on controlling every facet of an individual’s existence. In the current trajectory, it will lead to a further consolidation of wealth and power. Not an easy read, but most definitely a must read.
My favourite reads of 2020. An eclectic mix of fiction, almost fiction, and non-fiction. From data, digital advertising and free will to political institutions, mass extinctions and philosophy, a little bit of everything.