coffee and pie

“We inhabit an interesting time in the history of humanity, where a small number of people, numbering not more than a few hundred, but really more like a few dozen, mainly living in cities like San Francisco and New York, mainly male, and mainly between the ages of 22 and 35, are having a hugely outsized effect on the rest of our species.

Through the software they design and introduce to the world, these engineers transform the daily routines of hundreds of millions of people. Previously, this kind of mass transformation of human behavior was the sole domain of war, famine, disease, and religion, but now it happens more quietly, through the software we use every day, which affects how we spend our time, and what we do, think, and feel.

The designers of this software call themselves “software engineers”, but they are really more like social engineers.”

A very interesting and thought provoking article for anyone working online Modern Medicine, Jonathan Harris

See you in Amsterdam. London Terminal 5

Flying high. Amsterdam

Out in front. Amsterdam

Hanging behind. Amsterdam

After a busy weekend in Amsterdam Break SL is making this Monday sound much nicer.

Dancing. Music. Fitness. What’s not to love.

Decades ago, the answer was, “Build the Internet.” Fifteen years ago, it was, “Build the Web.” Five years ago, the answers were probably, “Build the social network” or “Build the mobile web.” And it was in around that time in 2007 that Facebook emerged as the social networking leader, Twitter got known at SXSW, and we saw the release of the first Kindle and the first iPhone. There are a lot of new phones that look like the iPhone, plenty of e-readers that look like the Kindle, and countless social networks that look like Facebook and Twitter. In other words, we can cross that task off the list. It happened.

The Jig Is Up: Time to Get Past Facebook and Invent a New Future

Early running. London

The school of life. London

Waking up in the evening. Berlin

Spoon envy. Berlin

Beer and bananas. Berlin

Messages. London

Wires and art. London

Bank holiday pancakes. London

Dele Sosimi at Boiler Room. London

Saturday, Soho sunshine. London

Weiden + Kennedy co-founder Dan Wieden talking about “interactive campfires” and The New TV Landscape

Major marathon training going on right now . Obviously deciding at the beginning of February running again would be a good idea, was a terrible idea but I’m fitting in my training around my day to day. Saturday long runs, short runs around Hyde Park at lunch and my midweek middle distance run is a tidy 13km from work in South Ken back home to Clapton.

Short runs mostly feel like a false start and I love my longer runs which are more like a story with a beginning, middle and end. They also give me 2hours to listen to anything I want. Floating Points and Juan Atkins were major breakthroughs last week.

Tracks on this weeks radar and needed for my marathon mix…

J Cub – Warning

Kazk- Pseudo habits

Jason Grove – Come with me

Things have been busy. Running, working, dancing. But my phone has always been there to capture the best bits.

Bill Cunningham New York, I didn’t want it to end – Barbican

Looking up – British Museum

I don’t understand – Clapton Station

It’s like I ran so far I left London – Walthamstow Marshes.

Candy floss cocktails – 98 Curtain road

Eglo third birthday – Fabric

James Blake on the spinny things – Concrete

The perfect splodge – Clapton

First taste of summer – The Hayward Gallery

Love this. So true.

“They look like women there to notice rather than to be noticed.”