The art of pattern finding

Dear reader,

This week I have to skip the weekly newsletter. Yesterday, my stepfather passed away. Still, I feel like sending this short update, as my father influenced me in the way I look at things in my professional life, finding patterns in developments, curiosity, and shaping concepts, so that feels right as a tribute. Peter Meijering entered my life when I was 7 years old. Nowadays, I think the term bonus father has replaced stepfather, back then, it was my ‘primary’ father, or just father. (FTR: I also had (and have) good contact with my biological father, whom I referred to as my real father in my childhood.)
Peter was a journalist and later also a publisher. Making magazines for most of his life. Larger consumer titles and later special interest magazines. He loved to share his thinking about his work, and I am pretty sure that taught me to reflect, find patterns, and formulate concepts. He will be missed.

The image heading this newsletter is of one of the writing tools he used in the era between typewriter and computer, the Philips VideoWriter. I got it at the start of my studies and wrote my first design research report. Later I donated it to Herbert Blankensteijn online museum.

Below is a short thought and the list of links I captured this week.

This week’s Triggered Thought

Just a short one. I was listening to the interview in Hard Fork podcast with Scott Shambaugh, about the story you might have heard. He tells the strange tale of the autonomous A.I. agent that wrote a hit piece about him to take revenge. Casey Newton's reflection foreshadows the next reality of the internet, where noise dominates, and slop is the default. It will for sure lead to new forms of reality. Places for sincerity. How will this play out in the physical AI space?

That is something for another week to dive deeper, finding the patterns…

Notions from last week’s news

These are the rough links I collected, it does not include the RSS feeds. You can find it in my Notion captures.

See you next week, hopefully with a regular newsletter.