As I waste time doomscrolling through text based social media or reels, I will often stop and ask myself: why am I doing this? Why am I not reading a book or watching a movie? After many an hour wasted on the couch with my phone, I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not tha...
i had cautioned myself for the millionth time against turning hawkish, the way the right and the rich do when feeling down in the mouth, gunning for a new clash of civilizations, or—more likely still—aiming to subdue chinese competition so they can make more money. as passengers learned...
Computer Scientist Explains Zero Knowledge Proofs in 5 Levels of Difficulty (YouTube)– I really like this YouTube series by Wired that explains technical concepts in ascending levels of complexity/detail. ZKPs are a big topic in my community of Web3 devs and this was a great video that ...
So, to time myself at hand-washinginstead of singing the insipid happy birthday song, I have been soaping my paws while warbling two rounds of my childhood summer camp favorite:Scab Sandwich. If you don’t know the tune, you could improvise your own; in case you haven’t heard the ly...
After the Boston edition of the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, IBM’s Rawn Shah wrote agreat follow-up postoutlining ten observations from the event. A couple points that I found myself agreeing with wholeheartedly were: Adoption is about transforming human behaviors at work – More folks are starti...
It’s here where you really do need to be comfortable with this situation, where Eastern philosophy is useful. The biggest lesson I take from Duggan’s book is the “presence of mind” principle. The willingness to consider a change in circumstances and see alternatives based on prior ideas ...
an attractive person, and decided to milk my charming personality instead. The glasses were an easy way to isolate myself from even having to consider keeping up some kind of face. Then I slowly came to feel that, well, maybe Ididwant my face to be visible. MaybeI liked my face. Is...
Let’s consider Yammer in this context. Simple microblogging runs along the “low quality use” in some ways. At least in terms of the feature set. But it certainly takes “use case share” away from email. If all you could do was make public notes, that’s the end of the story. ...