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Privilege

As an ex-Googler myself, I started reading this piece on another Googler's decision to leave with an eye towards its current problems and how a company renown for its freeform engineering culture is balancing that responsibility while streamlining…

Can the Enterprise be Consumerized?

The buzzword for the past 2-3 years – ever since people affirmed that smartphones and tablets are kind of a big deal – is that the office will have to adapt and ultimately cater to its workers' home computing setups. The…

Outsized Credit to Undersized Effort

It's easy to derive patterns and conjure connections from the tidbits of news that we consume daily. Whether it's drawing a line between the strategy underlining all of Microsoft's products, to placing all the…

Outdated Vehicular Technologies

I sold my car last month. It was my first; something I bought with the starting bonus of my first job out of school, a beautiful coupe that I've kept for almost nine years. Being a geek, I…

The Future of Games as a Service

Now that the crying from Simcity's server issues have mostly died down[1], it gives a bit of space to reflect on what happened. Maxis's always-online design decisions aside, the controversy would not have been as…

Thinking about the Merits of a Westernized Education

Being a product of both the Asian/eastern-style of education as well as American/western-style schooling, I'd like to think that I have a broad perspective on education. Sometimes, my wife and I argue about which style of…