Roundup #36

• I co-organized Music Hack Day Reykajvik 2012 and it was amazing.

• I hacked at Music Hack Day Reykjavik 2012 and made a coat hanger play Daft Punk. Wiki Page. video.
• I was at You Are In Control Conference 2012 in Reykajvik and spoke about Music Hack Day. Post. Slides.
• I was at Deezer BeMyApp Hackday Berlin 2012 and worked on Latefy, an iOS app that fingerprints the music playing around you and adds it to a Deezer playlist. Video. Code. Sadly can't bring it to the app store, because we can't get a license for the fingerprinter :(
• I was at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon 2012 in San Francisco. Got a post on TechCrunch for the hack I did with the KeyRocket guys.

• The Curse of the Traveler
• On Burning Man: the truth, a video, a picture
• Palast des Zweifels
• The worst thing about university are the constant context switches. Each day is cut into slices for different course. No flow possible ...
• "Seid begabt und liebt euch!"

• WatchLater is Instagram for videos with good iPhone app
• musicForProgramming("Growing with every episode");
• Video: The invisible bike helmet
• Video: Peter Thiel talked at my university about the future of society and building companies for it.

• Essay: "As We May Think" by Vennevar Bush predicting modern tech and data works
• Article: Iceland has the world's cleanest energy
• Remote Worker and Distributed Teams
• The 'Valve Handbook For New Employees' is an interesting display of hierarchy-less self-managing company culture