Mike Cairns Blog: Interesting Stuff by Chris Sandoval

This is a weekly newsletter that I subscribe to by Chris Sandoval that I absolutely love. I thought I would post it to my blog this week for all to share.

-Mike Cairns

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The newsletter was on vacation last week and came back with some extra vacation weight. Enjoy this 16% larger issue!

Think & Work Differently

What Lessons do People Learn too Late in Life?

You should send this to your kids. MUST READ

The Strange Brain of the World’s Greatest Solo Climber

“Alex Honnold doesn’t experience fear like the rest of us.”

What companies get wrong about open-office plans

“Rather than providing workers with more space, companies were better off pairing workers according to complementary skills”

More Think & Work Differently:

· Kindness as self-defense – the power of ‘non-complementary behavior’

· Mayor has an incredibly simple idea to help the homeless. It seems to be working.

· Like It or Not, “Smart Drugs” Are Coming to the Office

· HOWTO: Give Better Speeches: Talk to a Dog

· Incredible story of miraculous airplane landing can teach you a lot about focus

Security, Privacy & Fraud Stuff

HOWTO: Hack an Election in 7mins

“This isn’t a crazy hypothetical, these machines barely work in friendly environments.”

This is what Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone

Beware of phishing attempts if you ever lose your phone.

More Security, Privacy & Fraud Stuff:

· ATM and and PIN-pad hacks show chip cards aren’t impervious to fraud

· ‘Smart’ locks yield to simple hacker tricks

· Hackers Make the First-Ever Ransomware for Smart Thermostats

· High-tech methods behind massive theft of Jeep, Dodge cars

· AI Just Changed the Future of Information Security

Disruption & Transformation Stuff

Google isn’t safe from Yahoo’s fate

“on the wrong side of major trends in the digital advertising industry”

Alphabet Learns Change Isn’t as Easy as ABC

“The Company Formerly Known as Google is still figuring out how to be a conglomerate. But at heart, it’s the same world-changing cash machine.”

More Disruption & Transformation Stuff:

· The Competitor Amazon Never Saw Coming

Customer Experience Stuff

Department Store Creates Brilliant Gift Registry to Help Domestic Abuse Survivors

Whoa. Powerful. Have a tissue handy for the videos, especially the third one.

Looks Can Kill: Deadly Results of Flawed Design

“realm of UX is riddled with preventable tragedies.”

More Customer Experience Stuff:

· Designing for Augmented Reality and Pokemon Go

· Twitter has been failing its users for a decade by enabling harassment

· Why Facebook Is Blocking the Ad Blockers

Innovation Stuff

Paralyzed Patients Learn to Walk Again Using Virtual Reality

“brain-machine interfaces, when used in conjunction with exoskeletons and virtual reality, can trigger partial recovery in patients recovering from spinal cord injuries”

“Next time you’re afraid to share ideas…”

You should print this out and hang it at your desk.

More Innovation Stuff:

· 3 Core Behaviors of Brilliant Thinkers

· HOWTO: Hack Your Brain For Creative Ideas Before You Even Get Out Of Bed

· Free-standing waterfall at Versailles

· China Built That Crazy Traffic-Straddling Bus

Robots & AI Stuff

AI: What else could intelligence be?

“We build machines with narrowly human properties, skills, behaviors – a terribly restrictive idea of intelligence”

Don’t Replace People. Augment Them.

“What will new technology let us do that was previously impossible?”