📽 DesignUp Keynote videos are getting lined up for release. In this issue, we start off with Akshay Kothari - whose chance encounter with the D.School led to a series of fortunate events. Plus a mixed selection of goodness.

Meanwhile, tomorrow’s coders don’t know how lucky they’re going to be, says a short MIT Tech Review briefing. Because Cloud crossed with AI promises a fundamentally different way of building software 🔔 And, for those of you who, like me, are big fans of  the Freakonomics and Undercover Economist genre of books, here's some good news. Raj Chetty's Stanford course on Big Data and Econ for beginners is garnering some serious fan base! And now it's free, and online. 🔔 Time to mix Design, Data and Econ!

It's been an eventful week - work week + a weekend scouting around for possible locations for The DesignUp Reboot 🏝 We have being asked: "why not Goa?" We aren't big fans of long immigration queues, flights at odd hours either. So, why not? If you have a strong point of view for/against, mail us at 👉 [email protected] Meanwhile the search continues!

5 Timeless Design Lessons From The Bauhaus

"Of all the influences from the past 100 years, the Bauhaus—the venerable art and design school founded in 1919–has had the most enduring impact on the world of Design." This is a timely reminder and an excellent distillation of the lessons...

Voice Interfaces Are Here. Are They Necessary?

I stumbled upon my 5 year old tweet on the promise of Voice Interfaces. Looking back, this still remains an unrealised potential. But are things changing?

Facebook’s war on free will

This is a deep deep dive, weaving politics, philosophy and history—with the rise of algorithms, and most importantly: consequences - intended and unintended. "Without knowing it, Zuckerberg is the heir to a long political tradition. Over the last 200 years, the west has been unable to shake an abiding fantasy, a dream sequence in which we throw out the bum politicians and replace them with engineers – rule by slide rule."

Google’s New AI Designs AI Better Than Humans

"Four Google Brain research scientists–Barret Zoph, Vijay Vasudevan, Jonathon Shlens, and Quoc Le–recently released the results of a fascinating project..."

5 amazing books I read this year — www.gatesnotes.com

A highly recommended shortlist from a voracious reader—Bill Gates: 

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Until next week,

@JDallcaps