Offscreen Magazine – Issue 17

Offscreen is a print magazine and a weekly newsletter with a thoughtful, human-centred take on technology and the web. Discover purpose-driven people, products, and ideas that shape the digital age.

Table of contents

Blind Spot Detector: Food for thought by Lisa Sanchez.

Prime Directive: Food for thought by Bryan Hughes.

Projects: A collection of projects and ideas worth exploring, curated by Ivana McConnell and Kai Brach.

Interview: Tom Loosemore on how to run government like a startup, our responsibility to help transform public institutions, and the power that comes from creating magic with code.

A Day With: Spend a day with Claudine Rodriguez.

A Day With: Spend a day with Wiza Jalakasi.

Slow Growth: Defying to growth-hacking mantra with Natalie Nagele and Robert Mueller.

Interview: Heather B. Armstrong on writing sponsored content that doesn‘t suck, surviving the occasional social media shitstorm, and her public fight against hate mail and depression.

Rules of Business: Guiding principles for doing business, by Kanyi Maqubela.

Survey: We asked 712 readers about their daily work habits.

Gear: A collection of useful and beautiful office products, curated by Ivana McConnell and Kai Brach.

Interview: Jason Santa Maria on his career progression from freelancer to design director, why not everyone needs to ‘get’ typography, and his desire to catalogue all digital artefacts.

Profile: Technologist Owen Williams on what it’s like working for VanMoof, an Amsterdam-based bicycle manufacturer that tries to answer the question of how much technology we‘re looking for in a pushbike.

One Question: We asked our readers: In what ways do the web and new technologies make you feel optimistic about the future?

Workspace: A tour around the offices of Etsy, PortingXS, Nanobits, Dropbox, and LinkedIn.

Visit: Betahaus: Teresa Marenzi stopped by co-working space Betahaus in Berlin and asked seven random people what they’re currently working on.

Interview: Ashwini Asokan on why Artificial Intelligence urgently needs a legal and ethical framework, how mainstream media makes us fear robots, and why that fear is not entirely unfounded.

Ten Things I’ve Learned: Nick Fisher and La Vesha Parker share ten life lessons from working on the web.