Posts tagged with Technology
The Many Options in Storing and Enjoying Photos
Smartphones have made photos impulsive. What used to be an activity that required careful curation of moments has been made so convenient that our current problem is finding ways to store and sync our albums. Whether the value of each…
Solving Human vs. Natural Problems
Sam Altman wrote a short post which questions a premise: Why aren't today's startups more innovative? He notes that society has benefited from the consumer-centric technological focus in the last decade; starting with the smartphone…
Apple Pay and the Complexity of Payments
For the past couple of years, "payments" has been a frequent area targeted for innovation, something that tech companies and startups boast about disrupting but rarely back up with actual results. It has stubbornly refused to evolve from…
Outsized Credit for Tangential Association
I figured out the reason I find tech punditry – I guess punditry in general – distasteful. I'm writing the first draft of this post in the afterglow of the Apple Watch event, as they announced bigger iPhones and Apple…
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
Whiffies. A silly name for a foreboding concept. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is a book with a few concepts ahead of its time. It takes place in a time when resources are effectively unlimited[1], where it…
The Magic of Communication
My dad just forwarded me the latest family photo email. It's something that parents like to do. And as I watch the email crash my phone from sheer payload size, I began to wonder: why not just connect…
