Posts tagged with Technology
The Tech Down Turn
Layoffs.fyi is the new FuckedCompany.com. It's a crowdsourced tracker of all the layoffs happening in tech. I remember the site first started with the initial COVID lock down: when seemingly overnight, a number of industries—travel,…
Five Years of VR Progress
A couple weeks ago, I received an OculusMeta Quest 2 VR headset, courtesy of the team at Plato with their first metaverse, virtual conference. The last time I messed around with VR was borrowing a friend's original, first-generation…
Bypassing Car Dealerships
Despite being overvalued as a meme stock, Tesla rightfully gets a lot of credit for jostling the car industry from its decades of gradual, incremental improvements and forcing more drastic step function changes. The most obvious is popularizing EVs and…
Car Software as a Service
Tesla made a name for itself, not only by pushing for electric vehicles much harder than other manufacturers at the time, but upending the traditional processes around car ownership: bypassing the dealership model to sell directly to customers; no price…
Fitness Tracker Endgame
For the past 2 months or so, I've been trying out a new fitness tracker, the Oura ring. As the name suggests, it's a titanium ring embedded with a bunch of sensors and electronics, used to…
A Crypto Hypothesis
I don't write much about crypto on this blog. While I've worked and lived through some of the formulative years of FinTech, I admit I don't fully understand the crypto space—a space that…
