Happy Friday! Let’s get straight into it:
Australian Fintech and Startups
Plenti, formerly RateSetter, floated on the ASX with a mixed response, reflecting the market’s view on unsecured and P2P lending. Link
Up Bank released an incredible exposé on their design journey thus far. Link
The 2020 ‘Finnies’ (Fintech Australia awards) is coming! There’s a fantastic list of nominees within their sector, many of which encourage me to keep writing this week in, week out. Link. Register your interest here.
Big Tech
Teardown: Klarna’s onboarding process from a UX perspective. I would love more analysis like this. Link
Slide deck: Netflix’s guide to their culture (and it seems pretty savage, too). Link
Google’s adding a shape layer on top of Coronavirus hotspots in the US. Link
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Potpourri
A Nigerian court issued its first death sentence over Zoom. Now there is a sentence you wouldn’t read unless it was 2020. Link
Long + interactive read: The Evolution of Trust. Link
You can pay £5 to add a goat to your Zoom meeting. No kidding. Link
Stumbled upon: Faces of Roman Emperors digitally rendered from busts. Link
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Jimmy’s Notes
I’m excited to announce a new addition to my editions in the coming weeks. Keep your eyes peeled. Oh, and if you want to connect on LinkedIn, feel free to do so here. Otherwise, have a great weekend!
Trivia
(a) What is the most common religion in Mongolia?
(b) What are the only two sports in the Summer Olympics in which only women compete?
(c) “Conscience doth make cowards of us all” is from which Shakespeare character? Clue: title character.
(d) The three most common words in English ending with ROL all begin with the letter C. Control is first. Carol is second. What word is third? (clue: 11 letters).
(e) Geneticists have renamed 27 genes in the human genome because their names were causing issues with which popular application they’d been using to record the data?
(f) What do the following lines on this map represent?
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Trivia Answers
(a) Buddhism
(b) Synchronised swimming & rhythmic gymnastics.
(c) Hamlet
(d) Cholesterol
(e) Excel. And there’s an (admittedly funny) teardown as to why here. (tl;dr Excel converts gene symbols into dates e.g. MARCH1)
(f) Train / railroad tracks.