Martin WeigertThe many things that Sweden’s state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell has been wrong aboutSweden’s coronavirus “strategy” is a debacle, a human tragedy, a gamble with a bad risk-reward-distribution, and a depressing display of a…Jun 6, 20202Jun 6, 20202
Martin WeigertLibra is another WhatsApp moment for Facebook and regulators must not let it happenIn 2012 Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion, and two years later it acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion. Despite initial mockery for…Jun 19, 2019Jun 19, 2019
Martin WeigertKilling the Instagram habitI am downloading Instagram onto my smartphone about once every week, and delete it again a few minutes later.May 4, 2019May 4, 2019
Martin WeigertInsights and learnings after 10 years as a curatorAfter soon about 10 years as freelance curator (first part time, now basically full time for various projects) with focus on written…Apr 16, 2019Apr 16, 2019
Martin WeigertinHackerNoon.comHow the Internet Amplifies Our Cognitive BiasesThe internet reverses some of the previous achievements in reducing the aggregate harm of people’s cognitive biases on a society level.Apr 11, 20191Apr 11, 20191
Martin WeigertStupidity is not the opposite of intelligenceIf one day civilization should collapse (again) or humanity getting extinct, it most probably would be the consequence of human stupidity.Mar 23, 2019Mar 23, 2019
Martin WeigertI love email, more than everYesterday I dropped a package for return at the post office in Stockholm. The person behind the counter asked me: “Do you want the receipt…Jan 18, 2019Jan 18, 2019
Martin WeigertMy new email newsletter: Swedish Tech WeeklyHere is just a short announcement:Jan 12, 2019Jan 12, 2019
Martin WeigertinHackerNoon.comHow Facebook and Google could collapseWhat do Google and Facebook have in common, aside from that they are multi-billion dollar tech giants headquartered in Silicon Valley…Dec 8, 2018Dec 8, 2018
Martin WeigertinHackerNoon.comAlgorithmic survival of the fittestIn Darwin’s evolutionary theory, the concept of survival of the fittest stands for the phenomenon that the traits of life forms that have…Nov 10, 2018Nov 10, 2018