Close to hand
It is far, far easier to use a tool that you’re in the way of using regularly, that you can just pick up and do… Read More »Close to hand
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Resource: How to delay Googledrive / Backup and Sync on Windows startup
Googledrive/Backup and Sync has been eating a lot of resources on startup and slowing everything down… This fantastic howto from maketecheasier is the quickest crib-sheet… Read More »Resource: How to delay Googledrive / Backup and Sync on Windows startup
Podcasting resource: Anchor.fm
anchor.fm comes highly recommended as free-to-use-with -almost-no-limits one-stop-shop for podcasting. It’s apparently brilliant, intuitive and powerful, and an easy way to get your podcast onto… Read More »Podcasting resource: Anchor.fm
Five Questions: Victoria Patience
1) Introduce yourself: who are you, what do you do, and why is it important? My name’s Victoria Patience. I’m a freelance Spanish-to-English translator and… Read More »Five Questions: Victoria Patience
Machine. Ecosystem. (6) – Kevin Kelly on the techium
Okay, so machines are simple, largely linear, and predictable, and systems are complex, adaptive and ‘dispositional’… but look a bit closer and the distinction gets… Read More »Machine. Ecosystem. (6) – Kevin Kelly on the techium
Bits for atoms
We’re repainting our house – this is one of the colours about to be mixed at our local hardware shop. A small snippet of the… Read More »Bits for atoms
Peter Drucker on management as a discipline
If you can’t replicate something because you don’t understand it, then it really hasn’t been invented; it’s only been done. When I published The Practice of Management fifty… Read More »Peter Drucker on management as a discipline
Byproduct
Tobi Lütke (@tobi) is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Shopify. In 2004, Tobi began building software to launch an online snowboard store called Snowdevil. It… Read More »Byproduct
How tools spread
How do tools – ideas and understandings, practices, and real physical tools – get to the people who need them? Some tools may only need… Read More »How tools spread
Computers marching towards us
Computers have been on a steady march toward us. At first, computers were housed in distant air-conditioned basements, then they moved to nearby small rooms,… Read More »Computers marching towards us