Some links I thought worth reading the past few days

• Initial circumstances mostly trump intrinsic capabilities. Basically the evolutionary space available. Delayed gratification is based on affluence at the outset, not indicative of doing better in future: Why Rich Kids Are So Good at the Marshmallow Test
• Can’t afford it, society without social contract, techno-determinism, salvationism, denial. Five kinds of stooopid: Umair Haque on The Age of the Imbecility and how not to join it
• “Embrace and Extend” usually means “embrace and smother” in the context of organisations like Microsoft, and I expect lots of devs to head for the exit, though some see it in a positive light: Microsoft buying GitHub
• Allow proper citing of blogs, added to the ‘someday’ project list: Joi Ito adds a citation widget to his blog
• An analysis of the proliferation of Internet of Things Manifestos: A CHI 2018 paper, Calling for a Revolution
• This isn’t about open data, despite the original title, but controlled sharing in defined ecosystems: In Japan, Mitsubishi Estate and Fujitsu put blockchain in the service of shared data
• If you can answer this letter, you can likely handle anything GDPR related: So You Received the Nightmare GDPR Letter
• Why Doc Searls is probably right about GDPR popping the adtech industry, and why consent in the ePrivacy Directive is to be interpreted as GDPR style consent: Personal Data Processing for Behavioural Targeting needs unambiguous consent
• Networked agency is not about enabling individuals but people in their meaningful social context. So yes, open tools need to have the networked effect built in : To bring people to the open web it needs to be the best version of the web.