London

Once Google Maps becomes so important to the survival of restaurants it ceases to be a useful tool and becomes a thing to be gamed.

Just a quick review of 2025 as usual heavily inspired by the one that Hans puts out.

Musk’s attacks on British politics have been bizarre to witness. Imagine the richest man in the world waging an influence operation trying to put the far right in power in your country.

This spring when I was in London, I stayed there with Sonder and even when they were still in business the entire process was somewhat sketchy.

Cycling in London is more joyful than in Berlin and I feel it’s more of a cycling city now.

Since the one digital thing that Germany is really good at is copying, here is the UK’s 2025 roadmap for digital and data. Just copy-paste it and do everything that’s in there.

“The privilege I have — how? No, genuinely, how?”

I’m not that negative about the Dominic Cummings job ad, because:

We can talk about agile strategy all we want but “Doing over Planning”is a more than sufficient summary for anybody who wants to get started.

I’ll trust Artefact Cards when they say they have something that’s better than the Sharpie.

For the more abstract work, it makes it a lot easier for other people to ‘read your mind’ and for you to delegate if you share as much context as possible as Anna Shipman describes here.

Cath writes some very salient points about growing into leadership that on the one hand should be more widespread, but on the other hand, everybody will likely have to find out for themselves.

“It’s no coincidence that co-living start-ups have gravitated to cities like Berlin, San Francisco, London and New York. Ostensibly ‘winning’ the battle for capital and talent, they are urban testing-grounds, where rootless and cashed-up tech workers, heated real estate markets, and rising housing pressures add up to a recipe for experimentation.”

I was at the 2016 Bot Summit in London a couple of weeks ago. I did my best to capture salient points from every talk in a tweet. Here are all of them in order.

Another long form weeknote, history recapping brought by the fantastic Memolane service which aggregates my various media chronologically so I can quickly write this overview.

It’s that time of the year again, a modest list this time compared to some:

Ik denk niet dat ik binnenkort nog met de trein naar Londen ga.

As per Kottke fished out of my iCal and my Dopplr, hat tip Mark:

Maar ik heb er grondige vertrouwen in dat we hem kunnen repareren.

Had net Google Earth geïnstalleerd en zag dat daar erg handige tools in staan om afstanden te meten tussen plaatsen. Ik had voor mijn tabel nog een paar afstanden nodig die ik daarmee heb geschat.

Het leek me wel handig voor vrienden en familie om een continu up to date reisschema bij te houden. Een kruising zogezegd tussen een itinerary en een travelogue. Maar een blog is dat in feite al.

Ik heb vandaag de rest van mijn tickets geboekt voor mijn reis half augustus. Het complete schema: 17/8 08.00-13.30 AMS-ADA 1 5/9 05:35-08:05 SAW 2-EIN 3 5/9 19:35-19:36 EIN-STN 4 9/9 19:20-21:25 STN-AMS

I told Cris that now he’s a London resident he should not miss the number one geek/tech event in the area: Barcamp London.

Onze goede vrienden Cristiano (blog: “Weg uit Delft”) en Melinda gaan een nieuw leven beginnen in Londen. Het schijnt dat het goed afstuderen is aan Imperial hebben ze gehoord van deze mensen. En als Londen roept, wie blijft er dan in Delft rondhangen.

Barcamp London seems to have been a complete blast understandably. I’ve been reading the reports but from Jeremy’s blog I found these two nuggets:

Schneier analyseert de terreurdreiging in Londen en ziet daarin een grote overwinning van ouderwetse opsporingsmethoden die zich richten op de terroristen zelf.

Ok, zie net een goede reden om in Londen te wonen langskomen op BoingBoing: De Sultan’s Olifant en de Kleine Reus liepen daar afgelopen week rond zie ook de foto’s.

Leuk t-shirt voor als je naar Londen op reis gaat.