👶🤑🤖 Weekend Surf #18: First project of 2018, billions, design and AI

By Jacob Bøtter • Issue #18 • View online

2018 has been an awesome year. So far.

Plenty of good work-related projects and I’ve somehow managed to also find time for some work on the just-for-fun projects I mentioned last time that I would like to do more of this year.

The first one is (hopefully) a simple one. As a parent I find it almost impossible to quickly find a spot to go with your kids in the weekends. So we always end up in the same places where we always go, because we tend to ask the kids and they always say the same.

Well, no more!

I asked ten of my friends with kids (in Copenhagen) to help me make the simplest of simple directories of just wonderful spots to take your kids and tadaaa! I am taking sign-ups!

The codename is #lifewithkids and you can read more and sign up right here: https://lifewithkids.guide

And let’s make a bet: Have a thousand beautiful souls sign up for this thing and I’ll work night (and maybe also day) to make sure the first version is live by next newsletter.

Learn to billion

🤑 How Atlassian Built a $10 Billion Growth Engine

They surprised me last year when they bought Trello and the story behind the company surprised me too. Some actual good stuff to take away here!

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Think of design

🙄 Why Design Thinking in Business Needs a Rethink

I haven’t bought the full article, but what I read seems spot on: “The design thinking methodology calls for egalitarian, self-organized teams, but this isn’t how most established large companies work. In fact, the design thinking teams we have studied tend to have clear process and project owners, usually senior managers. […] To make things worse, these senior leaders often supervise 12 to 15 design thinking projects at a time.”

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News from our new artificial friends

🤖 A neural network that transforms a screenshot into a static website

Remember all those PSD 2 HTML services, where thousands of Pakistani coders sliced up your designs and made them come alive in somewhat compliant HTML and CSS? Well ofcourse, now you only need a neural network for that..

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🧠 Why Artificial Intelligence Is Not Like Your Brain—Yet

I just love this quote: “Contrary to belief, Artificial Intelligence resembles the gray matter in your head about as much as a pull-string doll resembles a rocket scientist.”

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Image of the week

https://textio.ai/1000-different-people-the-same-words-6149b5a1f351

Product of the week

🎧 Go ahead and delete the built-in Podcasts app

I’ve listened to a lot of podcasts for a long time, but it wasn’t until this Christmas I tried out Castro. It’s one hell of a leap from the built-in app on your iPhone, sort of like a Google Inbox versus Gmail thing.

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By Jacob Bøtter

A brief summary of the links I enjoyed this week, maybe you'll enjoy them too? They are usually in the field of business, technology and everything in-between.

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