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My Travel Essentials

How I pre-pack my travel necessities in mesh zipper bags.

9 min readOct 19, 2021

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The Big Tent is Burning Down

The impulse for consumer brands to avoid politics seems increasingly like wishful thinking

8 min readJan 31, 2019

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How to Start Mining and Using Cryptocurrency for the Complete Beginner

I learned a lot about blockchain technology by buying and using bitcoin: how to get it, track it, trade it, and make purchases with it. I…

5 min readMar 19, 2018

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The Future of Computational Propaganda

On January 17, 2017, Girl 4 Trump USA joined Twitter. She was silent for a week, but on January 24, she suddenly got busy, posting an…

2 min readFeb 6, 2018

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Ten dollar watch/Youtube tool/The Making of Me and You

Recomendo is a weekly newsletter that gives you 6 brief personal recommendations of cool stuff. Subscribe here.

2 min readApr 4, 2017

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It Doesn’t Have to Happen Here

Saving Our Democracy

8 min readJan 25, 2017

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Making the Gig Economy Work for Everyone

Ideas and prototypes at IFTF’s Positive Platform Design Jam

7 min readDec 15, 2016

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Making the Gig Economy Work for Everyone

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What does it mean to be human in an age of machines?

A discussion with Rod Falcon, Director of the Technology Horizons Program at Institute for the Future

12 min readNov 8, 2016

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What does it mean to be human in an age of machines?

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The Secret Aid Worker

Here’s what happened when Mike Zuckerman brought his San Francisco culture hacking ethos to the migrant camps in Greece

19 min readSep 20, 2016

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Six cool things from the Recomendo newsletter

Recomendo: issue no. 5

2 min readAug 28, 2016

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Six cool things from the Recomendo newsletter

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Mark Frauenfelder

Mark Frauenfelder

Research director at Institute for the Future. Co-founder, Boing Boing, editor-in-chief of Cool Tools. Read my newsletter, themagnet.substack.com

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