What’s the purpose of platforms? With so much talk these days around the responsibility of Social Media companies in what their members say or do not say, it is worth looking at what is meant with platforms and what’s their reason for existing. I used to...
Are we still in the celebrity CEO era? I think we are. I believe I heard someone calling its end, but the market never got the message. We continue to laud -sometimes even worship- the energetic visionary, and even despotic fearless leader in front of some of the...
The simplest way to understand encryption, is to think of a decoder wheel. One character becomes another, so the output on the other side of the function becomes garbled and cannot be read, unless we have our own wheel. Modern encryption though, is some more complex...
What matters? Is it the actual number? Or is it compared to something? As many times, the answer is, “depends”. When we are trying to determine if we reached a goal, if we “made it”, we have to go with the absolute number. “Black or...
To make a house livable, you first have to have a house. We all know that. But if there is enough forethought, those designing the house’s frame, can do so to make it much more livable. The doors, the window frames, the orientation, and a long list of etceteras...
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...
