In the first part of this post I spoke about witnessing transformations. About having been part of the commercial Internet. Continuing on in this vein, I’d like to now speak about transformation from a more personal perspective. I’ve always been part of teams, even if those teams have been ad hoc, and part of larger …
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Re-invention — part 1
It was a good Thanksgiving break. A week ago I had a cold. I thought it was COVID. It was not. Yeah! 😊 It was just a cold with a great mix of burnout. But, it gave me time to just lay there. And laying around just thinking can be fun. I thought about how …
Made my Monday
All we want for Christmas is an Oculus Quest
Some time at the beginning of the COVID pandemic, I thought that Facebook should give away their Oculus Quest to anyone who wanted one. I mean, this is like the perfect storm to massively introduce VR as a new way to interact with each other. A couple of days ago Facebook launched their answer to …
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#Trollwar
How war is waged today. A historic moment for Twitter and a sad time for the rest of the world
Self Branding
Had not realized how important self-branding is. China’s model of social scores based on one’s behavior. mental note Maybe one can be so good at branding as to fool or, control for-profit or government-controlled social algorithms.