#96 Why an ‘everything app’ is bad news for liberal democracies and free markets

Why an ‘everything app’ is bad news for liberal democracies and free markets

Monopoly, the board game, is often held up as a demonstration of capitalism, teaching players how business works. Actually, it does more than that. While it is true that a budding capitalist’s goal is to grab as large a market share as possible, the game shows that allowing a player to do so is bad for society as a whole.

Windows 95 went the extra mile to ensure compatibility of SimCity, other games

It's still possible to learn a lot of interesting things about old operating systems. Sometimes those things were documented, or at least hinted at, in blog posts that miraculously still exist. One such quirk showed up recently when someone noticed how Microsoft made sure that SimCity and other popular apps worked on Windows 95.

Why is being “Done” in Agile teams so tragically misunderstood?

The concept of “Done” in product development on Agile teams does not stick. Should we abandon it? Can we use another strategy to put the customer in focus?

StabilityAI announced AI Music Generator Harmonai based on Dance Diffusion Model

With Harmonai, a cleverly called new method for, you guessed it, creating an audio out of nothing, StabilityAI's researchers have made a big advancement in the field of AI audio-generation. The outcomes are astounding and diverse, and they are all just a little bit unsettling.

The non-linear workdays changing the shape of productivity

Some employees are breaking up their working days into a few hours at a time, doing tasks flexibly and asynchronously in the new world of work.

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