Brief thought exercise: how closely do you connect your self-worth to your job?
Work shouldn’t be EVERYTHING, right? Continue Reading
Psychology
Should Jibo the robot (and social robotics in general) terrify you, or is it a good step?
This is an interesting thing to think about: let’s say ‘The Internet of Things’ may be fully normative by 2030 or so. That means your house is all connected, and you can update everything via a smartphone, etc. People have been… Continue Reading
Could the Vancouver bus system be the key to finally ramping up the timeline on urban transportation projects?
Of the myriad things that don’t make sense in life, here’s one that strikes some people from time-to-time. Because of the culture and context aligned in an industry like tech, you can get a brand-new iPhone app in about three… Continue Reading
It might take 371 days for your mom to friend you on Facebook
Family dynamics and social media = always potentially dicey. Continue Reading
Can we all please stop talking about how much we’re multitasking? The concept is basically a myth.
It doesn’t really exist. Continue Reading
Travel in your 20s shouldn’t be a speed bump for your career. Can we just kill off the linear resume, please?
There’s a whole boatload of emerging context on the world of millennials vs. the world of their parents and grandparents, and some of it — such as aspects about where to live and what’s desirable in cities — seems logical,… Continue Reading
You probably spend two years of your life waiting in line. Could technology disrupt that?
Waiting on lines is terrible, but a seemingly unavoidable fact of life, right? Think about this, though: 20 years ago, the Internet was nascent, and finding an effective way to search was hard, but an unavoidable fact of life. (Cue… Continue Reading
The world got impatient; one second of slower load time can cost Amazon $1.6 billion across a year
There are some statistics you run across in the course of consuming information that just straight up blow your mind. Here’s one example: The most staggering statistic in @VaclavSmil’s new book: http://t.co/2N6cpXQsJ5 pic.twitter.com/QPcBscSLXj — Bill Gates (@BillGates) June 13, 2014… Continue Reading