Let me start by saying this is not a mean-spirited post, I have no ill feeling towards Meta nor the wonderful software developers than doubtless poured their hearts into the product. I have no skin the game, I am simply a user. This is an exercise in prognostication (the action…
Sometimes it's worth sharing something just because you appreciate it's beauty. The poem below was written by John Clare whilst committed to Northampton General Lunatic Asylum in 1841, prior to this Clare claimed "I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly." and he walked some 80 miles believing he was to meet…
“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed." - William Gibson, 2003 As I walked into WHSmiths and bought the 2023 copy last week, I realised I had been reading the magazine 'Wired', and its special edition 'The Wired world in 2022' but hadn't fully absorbed it, so…
I recently bought the book 'Creativity - a short cheerful guide' by John Cleese when I saw it in a local bookshop. I've always had a great interest in the creative process, I remember reading 'How to be creative' by Hugh MacCleod (later renamed to 'Ignore everybody'), which I wholeheartedly…
Imagine I told you that you can change your life for the better and in order to do that you have to not do something. That's right you have to not do something. It feels to me as if the pressure (the often subtle pressure, to do more [stuff] to…
I began reading "The 22 immutable laws of marketing"[not an affiliate link] after I'd heard it recommended by both Sam Parr and Tim Ferriss, first and foremost I would recommend anyone interesting in marketing to give it a read, its super easy to digest with short chapters on each…
For those unaware of the Monty Hall problem [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem], go have a read, it is a fascinating mathematical style problem that centres around one key question: Should you change from your original choice based on new information? Admittedly I've over simplified the issue…
There are things we just don't talk about, soft delete is one of them. Across the globe, data is being 'deleted' when a user asks for it to be removed, but what is really happening? Soft delete. This is when the data is no longer accessible to the user, it…