Category: Opinions
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Dad Advice: Reflections From The First 5 Months
Dad Advice Oh boy, this is going to be a fun one. I have a kid who is now 5 months old. Some things will get better, and some things will get worse, but for the most part, month 5 is so much better than the first 4. And month 4 was better than the… Read more
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Creating Something For Me: Reclaiming Personal Value in the Digital Age
Creating Something For Me: Reclaiming Personal Value in the Digital Age Corporations are extracting everything valuable we produce—labor, creativity, homes, land, and even our biometric data. Every photo you put on Facebook and every tweet you tweet on Twitter X you X on X is fed into a machine to generate money for someone else.… Read more
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A Painter in a Print Shop My Struggle with Databricks
A Painter in a Print Shop: My Struggle with Databricks This is a cry into the void. A single man against a freight train. As I have become fond of saying, “A painter in a print shop.” I don’t think I can stop Databricks. In a way, what they have done is brilliant and scratches… Read more
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Reclaiming Control: My Journey to Owning My Data
Owning Your Data The Beginning We have lost control of our data. We started putting little things out onto the internet, which turned into blogs that corporations realized they could capitalize on. This, in turn, became micro-blogging—Twitter, for example. Pretty soon, all our thoughts and images were going into a bottomless bucket that we didn’t… Read more