As I wrote about recently in “A Work in Progress,” I have been creating my own implementation of a “second brain.” A year or so ago, I had a pretty robust system set up that included one component I didn’t mention in that blog post: Evernote. After years of price increases and questionable software “improvements,” …
Recently, I took a look at my digital bullet journal (BuJo) setup that had evolved over the years. The system consisted of multiple tools: Google Docs—This was the “home” to my actual BuJo documents. I had one document—structured through a series of nested tables—which contained a record of my week in one place. Google Calendar—I …
America Online—later rebranded to the simpler AOL—was ahead of its time. Once upon a time, the company connected millions of homes to the internet, wooing customers through their prolific free CDs available at retailers and sent to homes directly through the postal service. The rite of passage of making sure no one was on the …
“Nerds will save the world.”—Wil Wheaton I’ve never been one of the “cool kids.” In my youth, I had an interest in playing sports, but life’s circumstances didn’t let that materialize, either. I was a good student from an early age. Science fairs, spelling bees, and other academic competitions were things I could participate in, …
Every year, tech titans Google and Apple hold major events to launch new mobile phones. Apple, along with nearly all major software manufacturers, also has annual events to release new versions of software. A couple of weeks ago, one of the most well-known software packages—Windows 95—recognized the 30th anniversary of the software’s release. In the …
Earlier in my career, I worked for an international book publisher. I started there, working on the creation of books that I would later see on the bookshelves at Borders (remember them?) and Barnes & Noble. As my career continued, I transitioned from print books to online content and, subsequently, ebooks. I understand the convenience …
I am a fan of Apple Computer and its charismatic co-founder, Steve Jobs. Apple has historically placed a high value on the design aesthetic of its products and their functionality. Even the early all-in-one Macintosh computers had the polished edges in the software that came installed on those beige boxes with the molded carrying handles. …
Popular culture seems to think the concept of robots began around the time of Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, published in 1942. But a dive into the history of robots—loosely defined in this context as a machine capable of carrying out a pre-defined set of actions automatically—dates back hundreds of years before Asimov. A …
In 2013, the late Amy Bleuel founded Project Semicolon ten years after her father’s suicide. The non-profit organization advocates for mental health awareness. Bleuel chose the semicolon for the organization because, as punctuation, it represents a continuation of thought. In essence, a semicolon is used in print when an author could have ended a thought …
About two weeks ago, astronomers welcomed a new tool into their arsenal for studying the cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The observatory houses the world’s largest digital camera, which photographs the sky every 40 seconds. According to the observatory’s website, the camera is the size of an SUV and captures images at …
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