Internet of Evil Things?

21st July, 2015 No Comments Blog

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)

3rd July, 2015 No Comments Blog

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 […]