Traces of your digital existence

Aiming at deleting all traces you made years ago, or simply want to see what's out there about you? Either way, the first step is to assess your online presence.

Robust Digital Footprint or...

Two worlds, two opposing philosophies: complete anonymity or a strong digital footprint. The story you tell online.

Your legacy: a digital vault

A comprehensive digital archive, preserving digital memories, photos, videos, and digitized documents so they can stand the test of time and be passed down as a lasting legacy.

Open source intelligence on yourself

The minimum you should do is to set up Google Alerts listing all your name variants and get notifications regularly, or "as-it-happens". Any mentions will be visible to you.

Control: the choice is yours?

With shadow profiles and digital fingerprinting, some entities - outside of your control - know more about you than you can ever collect online about yourself.

Feeding the machine

Think about it: whatever we do - either making something ready for the digital realm, but also when seemingly simply "consuming", we are feeding the digital machine.

Speed - when fast is too fast

With the rapid advancements of AI assistants convenience and speed sometimes can have an adverse effect. In this post I'm examining 3 use cases: Gemini "sanitising" and cleaning data, Fabric auto-extracting "wisdom" from YouTube videos and finally, how to build and publish a blog within 2 hours.

How commuting changed my life (for the better)

There was a time before COVID. And there is a time post-COVID. Both contributed to my growth in various ways. This post details the nuances of energy levels and the overall outcome of both scenarios.

The Digital Alchemist

The term "digital alchemist" is increasingly used in various fields, particularly those involving creativity, technology, and transformation. I let it sink in.

FocusUI: the end of App Stores

FocusUI is a new user interface concept revolutionising digital information handling. It's a potential solution to information overload offering a focused way of digital content creation.

CreativeOS is now FocusUI

FocusUI offers a revolutionary way of coping with information overload while managing and creating digital content. A new kind of user interface focusing on the digital content creation process.

The CreativeOS Manifesto

I wrote this piece of text 12 years ago, on March 24th 2008. I am brave enough to publish it now - without any recent editing. As it is, as it was written. What do you think?