We live in the age of the API. Most solutions have an open API (Application Programming Interface – Just in case you don’t remember what it stands for), to communicate with them. APIs allow software to communicate among each other, making it possible for...
In my daily writing, I save some drafts and some titles to be developed later and today, I noticed a pattern. Every few weeks or days, I save some kind of title that speaks to scarcity of ideas, to the day that will eventually come where I have nothing to write about....
I was reading a case study about the once revolutionary “Mas por Menos” supermarket chain in Costa Rica. They were the first ones to introduce the self service experience in that country almost 100 years ago. Before them, there was only the regular corner...
There is a different way of thinking of “the singularity”, perhaps in its lesser mode. Whit systems that are capable of learning, we can draw an analog from human mentor-mentee relationships. As the student becomes better at the craft, they need the...
Even with all the buzz around AI, and all the rapid advancements, sometimes we still fall into thinking that nothing’s going to change. Everything will as we are used to, and no, no jobs will be disrupted. Here is one to make you think again: with the latest iOS...
How intellectual property is protected seems to be quite a mystery for many. I am no lawyer, but ideas, designs, and methods can be protected in at least a couple of different ways, very different one from the other: The first one is just plain secrecy. If no one can...
