Cory Doctorow gave a very interesting speech recently at the Personal Democracy Forum (hosted by my friend Andrew Rasiej). He spoke about the “Internet of Things” (IoT) and the risk that Internet-connected devices could be hacked (or programmed by their OEMs) to do things that a user might not want them to do. Specifically, he […]
Phone Best Practices (No Calls Please)
I have come to believe that a phone call is usually the worst form of business communication. It suffers from the downside of meetings with almost none of the upside. A phone call: requires synchrony, meaning everyone has to be available at the same time; is inefficient because most people read and write faster than […]