Posts tagged with Technology
Review: Little Rice — Smartphones, Xiaomi, and the Chinese Dream
I’ve read my share of books and articles on the current economic and political phenomenon that is China. I’m interested in part because of my own ethnicity and complex relationship with the country, and in part because its…
Effective Communication Requires Traffic Engineering
Solving communication with clever tooling is akin to buying into a get-rich-quick scheme. I’d like to think most of us recognize that good communication in itself is hard , but I do think a lot of us want to believe…
Software as a Core Competency
Techies like writing about Tesla. Beyond the perhaps oversimplified comparisons to Apple, the company also feels like it’s a disruptive force, one taking on the old establishment of major car companies and their dealership cartels. It embodies the startup…
Tesla's Hype in Defining the Future
Tesla has been called the Apple of cars, and the comparison does work in a few ways: * Both companies are known for their minimalistic and simple designs, * They both target the middle-high end of their respective consumer markets, * Both emphasize…
Fashion Choices and the Apple Watch
I just came across this astute article on the current state of Apple and Android smartwatches from FastCompany: Google Could Beat Apple At Fashion—Just Like It Did Phones It gets to the heart of one of the problems with…
Review: The Glass Cage: Automation and Us
It seems inevitable that by the end of this decade, we’ll reach a new level of software automation in our lives never seen before. Between drones and robotics and autonomous cars and possibly the Internet of Things and automated…
