This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. Consumer society turns households into a vessels for trash on the path to their destiny. Mass-production is just an engine to produce trash. Our oceans are just warehouses for trash, where it is becoming larger than most islands. Our idols’ […]
Author: Mudassir Chapra
This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. Photo by Matthew Henry from Burst Hello. I have run out of ideas again. This was a monumental undertaking to begin with. I am this close to finishing and I am not giving up. This is the 27th day of this […]
This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. Eventually the open web will be killed and the internet will transform into hundreds of national and thousands of regional networks. The governments of the world wouldn’t have it any other way. In the beginning Before the internet, information was […]
This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. Modern work is still valued as if it was done in the 18th century. This has created an unmotivated workforce that wastes most of its time on busy work. In The Beginning When Adam Smith wrote about labor specialization in […]
Writing every day can be a chore. I have made mistakes so you don’t have to. Part 1 here. There will be no second drafts When you write everyday, you don’t have much time to revise your drafts. So make sure to set aside time not just to write but to proofread as well. You will […]
This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. Apple will make money the only way it knows how; by exploiting its monopoly position. It will be couched in high-minded pretense of privacy, but it will be dirty. Competing Apple does not like competing. Competition is a fools game, […]
This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. The title is a bit of a clickbait. iMessage is an extensive, large scale messaging app with supposedly 1.3B active users. On a technical level, it is a ‘service’. However Apple’s business case for building this service and just giving […]