To change behavior, there must be a certain degree of agency. If there is no influence in the outcome, there is no point to change. The residents of my current city are great. Rugged, hard working and mostly respectful of their fellow human beings. But when you move...
Some innovations that are appearing over the horizon look to most us someway weird. We go “no way”. We presume they are fads and we’ll never use them. It always have been like that. Just a few years ago, the answer that met some of these innovations went something...
You may have already heard about the large amounts of energy that Bitcoin miners utilize in the process of working on the blockchain and spitting out another coin, or “mining” it. Recently, I was introduced to an ingenious way of using this for stabilizing...
Whenever the cost is not significant, I behave like an early adopter. That’s why I started using LinkedIn in 2002, and I continue to check out whatever tech innovation shows up that I can check out for a nominal fee, or for free. So when I was for a few days in...
Most days I go through a morning ritual of updating the apps on my phone. It is a rare day when there are not at least four or five apps with a new release. EVERY DAY. Granted, there are hundreds of apps on my device; and the only one at fault for this is me, for...
Large companies usually build a portfolio of products. That’s how they grow to become large, by acquisitions or by developing their own new products. After years, in contrast with startups that focus typically on just one product, they almost become known for...
