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The Startup

Your Product’s Ethical Stack

It’s time for a mental model update to help product teams explore the ethical integrity of the products they build

7 min readOct 6, 2020

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Your Product’s Ethical Stack

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James Lynden

The 5 Freshest Books on Ethics that Technologists Must Read 📚

With great power comes great responsibility, right? I want to help technologists have more informed and fruitful discussions about that…

6 min readAug 5, 2020

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The 5 Freshest Books on Ethics that Technologists Must Read 📚

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The Sustainable Innovator

Should You Really Describe Your Innovation Approach As “Human-centred’?

Everything that is problematic with the design industry’s darling buzzword

3 min readDec 10, 2019

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Should You Really Describe Your Innovation Approach As “Human-centred’?

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James Lynden

Chief Philosophy Officer — A Job Description

The CPO will be our in-house devil’s advocate, tasked with asking uncomfortable questions.

3 min readNov 5, 2019

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Chief Philosophy Officer — A Job Description

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James Lynden
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The Sustainable Innovator

Never Brainstorm Ever Again

Introducing the two-storm. You’ll never go back

4 min readNov 4, 2019

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Never Brainstorm Ever Again

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Becoming Human: Artificial Intelligence Magazine

What does it mean to “humanise” technology?

Tech discourse is increasingly using the term “humanise” to describe everything from designing more personable chatbots, through to…

4 min readNov 10, 2018

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What does it mean to “humanise” technology?

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James Lynden

Qualified Self: Quantified Self’s AI-powered replacement?

A new movement, Qualified Self, built upon on AI which can analyse qualitative data, may soon take the place of Quantified Self.

4 min readOct 9, 2018

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Qualified Self: Quantified Self’s AI-powered replacement?

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James Lynden

Poetry, My Secret Weapon for Language Learning

I’ve started learning German. Right now, I have just about enough German to say that ich spreche kein Deutsch. That is, I’m a total…

4 min readMar 25, 2018

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Poetry, My Secret Weapon for Language Learning

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MUSIC x

Experiencing mood on Spotify

I’ve been putting some thought into the relationship between mood and technology, particularly looking at digital experiences which build…

9 min readJan 21, 2017

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Experiencing mood on Spotify

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Why does everyone hate Read Receipts? We did some research to find out.

Read receipts, such as that familiar blue double-tick on WhatsApp or timestamp on iMessage, are the object of a lot of frustration. At…

6 min readNov 4, 2016

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Why does everyone hate Read Receipts? We did some research to find out.

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James Lynden

James Lynden

Researcher, Facilitator, Strategist. Working at Spotify. Ethical innovation and systems thinking. Making space for deep work. Ex-Ultraleap, B&O, O2, IXDS.

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