Technology Virtual Junk Drawers Internet 3.0 is really just us making MANY MANY giant virtual junk drawers.
Google Automation, the illusion of caring This time, there was no notice e-mail at all. It was taken down, and there was no clear reason behind it, no notice, nothing. Google, a company that violates privacy
Technology Third-party delivery platforms as they’ve been built, just seem like the wrong model, but instead of testing, failing, and evolving, they’ve been subsidized into market dominance
Technology Spotify’s Problem Even though Spotify continues to see strong subscriber growth, the additional scale hasn’t resulted in dramatically improved financials. The problem is found with the high variable costs associated with
Technology “Link In Bio” is a slow knife For a closed system, those kinds of open connections are deeply dangerous. If anyone on Instagram can just link to any old store on the web, how can Instagram — meaning
Security Ring let police use a heat map to easily see all devices in an area "The more we learn about Ring, the clearer it becomes that this product poses serious privacy and civil liberty threats," Markey said in a statement to CNET after learning about
Apple Smartphones and tablets killed the PC Yet none of this mattered. Because of its hold on the smartphone business and a very sticky software ecosystem that users found hard to leave, Apple has been able to
Technology The Shift to Electric Vehicles Some great quotes from this article: The Shift to Electric Vehicles Propels a Strike Against GM “electric cars are disasters. They are evil. We are very nervous.”the 3 stages
Technology Am I an Executive? Can you answer yes to these two questions: Can I set my own budget and sensibly spend money how I see fit? Can I hire the right people at any
Apple HomePod will expand in markets Amazon and Google can't Apple is competing for the home audio experience, not ad surveillance The next year, Apple expanded its "Pods" branding to the home. The HomePod wasn't designed to outsell $30 loss
Technology Our Lives Are Becoming Comfortable Illusions Once you start to see this, you’ll see why it wreaks havoc on people’s minds: Reality isn’t simple. It’s complex and messy. Life is full of
Google Google, Facebook, and The Creepy Line Google also makes most of their money via this same type of keyword-based advertising that doesn’t require any search-history tracking.So why do they track it all then? Because
Technology Media’s Blame Game When you have sales guys (they are mostly guys) in charge, decisions will reflect their usual approach, which is to maximize their personal gains as quickly as possible, cash in
Media Tracking-based ads, generally called adtech, do not sponsor publications Getting the world to mistake direct marketing for real advertising is one of the great magic tricks of all time: a world record for misdirection in business.Tracking-based ads, generally
Technology Neal Stephenson – Why I Am a Bad Correspondent Writing novels is hard, and requires vast, unbroken slabs of time. Four quiet hours is a resource that I can put to good use. Two slabs of time, each two hours long, might add up to the same four hours, but are not nearly
Technology Virality Is History We all watch different TV shows and read different books and listen to different music. So nothing catches fire and blows up, because no one’s got the time for what they’re already interested in.So marketers furiously look for publicity in newspapers,
Technology Computers and Video Surveillance It used to be that surveillance cameras were passive. Maybe they just recorded, and no one looked at the video unless they needed to. Maybe a bored guard watched a dozen different screens, scanning for something interesting. In either case, the video was only
Technology Heroku vs. a private server vs. Kubernetes Heroku vs. a private server vs. Kubernetes Use Heroku (or something similar) whenever you can. It’s easy and painless. But sometimes you need disk storage, or your own database server, or a few apps which cooperate. This is hard to do with Heroku.
Technology Magic Magic at its very core is simply limiting the number of people that know the secret.
Technology How the Tech Press Forces a Narrative on Companies it Covers I don’t remember who told me company narratives were like a clock. I was at Google, where I’d taken a job on the communications team despite zero experience in communications. During my early days there, I tried to navigate my new profession
Technology Tesla critic changes tune on Elon Musk: ‘I think it’s time to re-evaluate the man’ “I think it’s time for a re-evaluation. I think it’s time to look at the man’s achievements, rather than his public image. Like him or not, Elon Musk is surely the prime example of a brilliant entrepreneur.“He makes state-of-the-art electric
Technology Dokku - The smallest PAAS The smallest PaaS implementation you’ve ever seenOwn Your PaaS. Infrastructure at a fraction of the cost.Powered by Docker, you can install Dokku on any hardware. Use it on inexpensive cloud providers. Use the extra cash to buy a pony or feed kittens.
Technology Mass personalization is a trap I know that I’m asking you to spend hours on the favor I’m asking, but no, I couldn’t be bothered to spend three minutes to ask you.There’s an uncanny valley here, that uncomfortable feeling we get when we know
Technology Not making decisions I think that the biggest problem that Reddit had and continues to have, and that all of the platforms, Facebook and Twitter, and Discord now continue to have is that they’re not making decisions, is that there is absolutely no active thought going
Technology Most successful entrepreneurs are older than you think The romanticized image of entrepreneurs is a picture of youth: a 20-something individual with disruptive ideas, boundless energy and a still-sharp mind. Silicon Valley has bet on this image for years.But is this right?Far from it, according to our recent research with
