[Weekly Retro] Being beginners
#252 - May.2025
Weekly Retro is a short e-mail with a wrap-up of ideas from the week, interesting links I found, and food for thought before you head off for the weekend.
Hi there!
💡 Here is a quick idea for the weekend:
In a world where anyone, with the right tools, can now build what once needed entire teams: adaptability is the king.
Your ability to learn and reskill fast matters more than your current expertise.
The professionals who thrive will be the ones comfortable with being beginners again.
And again.
🧠 Ideas from this week
Humans are needed
#249 - Knowledge bites on tech innovation, design, and creativity. Here’s the reality we need to face: repetitive, low-value tasks are disappearing today through automation. What’s left requires what technology can’t replicate: human judgment, creativity, and connections.
César Rodríguez
📊 Interesting visuals
Source: The Future of Jobs Report 2025
🛠️ Resources you can download
7 core principles for ethical design: Build trust and reduce risk with these ethical design principles that balance innovation with responsibility. Yes, it's free!
👨🏻💻 Interesting links
- I can't wait to see what IO + OpenAI are working on. On Jony Ive's word: "I have a growing sense that everything I have learned over the last 30 years has led me to this moment."
https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/
- Apple seem to have enter the race of smart glasses (what about the Vision Pro?). Curious to see the battle between AR and Spatial computing.
Apple Smart Glasses Launching in 2026
Apple is planning to launch a set of smart glasses by the end of 2026, reports Bloomberg. The glasses will be comparable to the Meta Ray-Bans and the…
Juli Clover
- Agentic checkout is becoming a thing! Shopping experience is being reinvented with new ways of interaction. This can have profound changes in business models, like traditional e-commerce and Ads.
100 things we announced at I/O
Learn more about the biggest announcements and launches from Google’s 2025 I/O developer conference.
Molly McHugh-Johnson
🖋️ Quote of the week
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” – Haruki Murakami
