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Encryption and truth – The Daily PPILL #352

Encryption and truth – The Daily PPILL #352

The simplest way to understand encryption, is to think of a decoder wheel. One character becomes another, so the output on the other side of the function becomes garbled and cannot be read, unless we have our own wheel. Modern encryption though, is some more complex...
Absolute and relative – The Daily PPILL #351

Absolute and relative – The Daily PPILL #351

What matters? Is it the actual number? Or is it compared to something? As many times, the answer is, “depends”. When we are trying to determine if we reached a goal, if we “made it”, we have to go with the absolute number. “Black or...
Forethought – The Daily PPILL #350

Forethought – The Daily PPILL #350

To make a house livable, you first have to have a house. We all know that. But if there is enough forethought, those designing the house’s frame, can do so to make it much more livable. The doors, the window frames, the orientation, and a long list of etceteras...
Everything is a subroutine – The Daily PPILL #349

Everything is a subroutine – The Daily PPILL #349

We live in the age of the API. Most solutions have an open API (Application Programming Interface – Just in case you don’t remember what it stands for), to communicate with them. APIs allow software to communicate among each other, making it possible for...
Expendable: The three jobs of the CEO – The Daily PPILL #348

Expendable: The three jobs of the CEO – The Daily PPILL #348

The CEO/founder has three jobs. The first one, is to provide the vision. The things that could be. By providing a vision, a leader can instill purpose into every single person in the organization. The second, is relations, relations, relations. Customers, investors,...