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. After reading the previous parts(part 1 and part 2) of this trilogy, you might think I hate spoken-word audio. Nothing can be further from the truth. I love people talking in my headphones. Which is why I can tell you […]
This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. Yesterday, I illustrated why ‘hot’ voice-notes are not compatible with the ‘cold’ text messages, in light Marshall Macluhan’s media theories. You can read that here. Today I will show you some practical reasons you should not use voice-notes in text […]
This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. Audio is a ‘hot’ medium. Text-messages are a ‘cool’ medium. Voice Notes( or voice messages) have no place in text messaging conversation. This high-brow media theory is not why voice-notes annoy me, but it provides an explanation. Media and Messages Marshall […]
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 […]
This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. Selling stuff is hard. People who have money, would rarely part with it without reason. So sometimes you just have to invent reasons, so people may buy your wares. This is called commercial propaganda advertising. Sometimes these are so effectively […]