It is not the phone that is truly important, it is the applications that it contains. There is no aspect of our lives that is not affected by our smartphones in the modern day and thanks to the help of… Read More ›
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A natural ecosystem
Step 1 is to get a prospect to buy, therefore becoming a customer. Step 2 is retaining that customer for long term profitability. That can be done in many ways, but they basically boil down to giving the customer a… Read More ›
My Father Spent 30 Years In Prison
My father went to prison when I was only a few months old. He and my mother were married. She was 22 years old, and he was two weeks from 21. His crime and subsequent incarceration devastated her. She discovered… Read More ›
Revolutionary Phone Failures
Every year, gadget companies like to flaunt out their latest flagship smartphones and show off all of the “revolutionary” features that will make this slab of glass and metal different from the nearly-identical looking slab of glass and metal already… Read More ›
What or how is most important to you?
Isn’t that a bit like saying “What can Windows do that a Mac can’t?” vboelema A simple comment in response to this article which discussed the fact that, in my opinion, iOS can literally do everything that Android can. Everything… Read More ›
iOS can do things, as many things as Android
The discussion above on Twitter is symptomatic of how many people view iOS and the constraints of the iPhone. Constraints that almost always are not present unless you are looking at using an iOS device with no third party apps… Read More ›
Office Politics
I learned my lesson about the importance of office politics in the beginning of my career. I received two promotions very quickly and thought the secret to getting ahead was doing great work. But after eight years with a company… Read More ›
What Bullets Do To Bodies
The first thing Dr. Amy Goldberg told me is that this article would be pointless. She said this on a phone call last summer, well before the election, before a tangible sensation that facts were futile became a broader American… Read More ›
Why Poverty Is Like a Disease
From one perspective, epigenetics offers a compelling narrative of life experiences feeding back directly onto the basic programming that makes us who we are. But the field also has some foundational controversies. In June of last year, a team of… Read More ›
Fake News
The problem, as I see it, is not the news itself, but how we get our news. There are still lots of dependable journalists and media out there, while keeping in mind that almost all news is slanted, even slightly,… Read More ›
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