Your digital life: horizons, dimensions and vistas
Navigating through the digital aspects of life is easy. Big tech made it easy. Frictionless decisions. Super easy to go off course too. Are you ready to take back control?
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The End of the Error Message
In an "imperfect, real world," which one is more valuable? A system that is 100% right only 50% of the time (because it throws errors on the rest), or a system that is 95% right 100% of the time because it knows how to adapt?
Focus Time with an AI Assistant
Give me two weeks with an AI assistant, and I can be dangerously competent in any subject I focus on.
Snowflakes: The Power of the Unique
With software development costs heading to reach zero, the opportunity is here: build your own, bespoke solution. Why? ...because now you CAN!
From Personal Computer to Personal Software
Hyper-customization level 2: the "built-for-now" era of software is here, where software becomes irrelevant - compared to the goal you want to achieve with it.
The Digital Alchemist’s Manifesto
The Human "Magic": true value lies in the exclusively human ability to connect the dots in unexpected ways and create transformative value.
Hyper-customization: Infinite Editions of One
Imagine a world where the "Bestseller List" doesn't exist any more because everyone is reading a different book - one written specifically for them.
Glow
The secret of the G100w lay in its "Deep-State Heuristics." It is a proprietary god that doesn't care about "love." It cares about Long-Term Stability.
In search of a "third place"
Working from home successfully merged the "first place" (home) with the "second place" (workplace). There is no escape from work any more... Unless, you find your "third place" - in the real world.
The rate of change - in the face of AI
From OS updates to libraries, code bases, the level of fast distribution across the globe. Could a slowdown help here?
The responsibility of creation
When you decide to capture a moment or scene (e.g. with a drone) and make it available online, you also do something else beyond "building a memory".
Altered content: synthetic but seems real
When posting my photos online I used to say (proudly): no AI tool was used in the process of making this photo. I can no longer state that.
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The promise of Spec-Driven Development
Envisioning a future where a small team of 3 maybe 4 people can build something magnificent - in the digital realm. Take a product person, add a few software engineers and someone with social media skills.
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Fighting information overload: FocusUI
No menus. No more "File", "Edit", "View", "Window" and "Help". Yep, you read that right. No overlapping and competing "spaces" called "windows". None.
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Circles of defense: your online accounts that really matter
When was the last time you changed your password for your GMail account? Do you know which of your accounts have your credit card details linked to them? Accounts with recurring fees? Let's sort these out.
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Managing secrets: an era ending with passkeys
Password hygiene, one password to rule them all, one-time passcodes, 2FA, MFA. Magic links. Hardware tokens. Addressing the same issue: how to restrict access to sections of the digital world.
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Digital dossier: connecting the dots
Profile pages you never knew existed. All collected, sorted and listed by a more powerful tool than Sherlock: Maigret.
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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.
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Robust Digital Footprint or...
Two worlds, two opposing philosophies: complete anonymity or a strong digital footprint. The story you tell online.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.