Tag: Technology
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If you’ve been pondering how some people get many things done in a day, knowing that you spend the same hours but feel like you’ve done nothing (except binge-watching what’s new or doom-scrolling through social media) most of your waking hours. You feel like waking up from a stupor. “Something has to change,” you tell…
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What is the “3-2-1” backup rule? Have three (3) copies of your data where two (2) copies are stored in separate devices and one (1) is stored in a different physical location. But how much should we invest in storage these days so that we can afford to have this redundancy?
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I first caught wind about how access to A.I. Tools is opening up to the general public through the Urgent Optimists community as they discussed face-search tools like PimEyes and A.I. art (text to image) like Midjourney. You might like to read the blog posts I wrote about face search and AI art: And in less than a year,…
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Dear reader from the future, We are now at an “inflection point,” according to Arati Prabhakar, director of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy. By that, she meant, “All of history shows that these kinds of powerful new technologies can and will be used for good and for ill.” I live in…
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This is a list from Future Minds: How the Digital Age Is Changing Our Minds, Why This Matters, and What We Can Do About It by Richard Watson. If you want to read the book but don’t have the time, I already did it for you. Check out my book notes here. While reading through…
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If you’ve had enough of quick messages that doesn’t often require deep thinking (because you can unsend it anyway), you might like to explore sending short audio messages. And what’s fascinating about them is that they can actually hear what you mean. With transactions that can be easily exchanged online, it becomes difficult to trust…
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For the past six months, I have shared how a dumbphone changed my lifestyle and how I relate with people in gatherings. And snapping out of the tool, becoming the user and not being used, I began to see things that only felt like a knot in my guts before. Something is wrong with how…