An API is one of those words that us “tech bros” (can I say “tech sis”?) just throw around mindlessly, with disregard of the huge idea behind it. It stands for “Application Programming Interface’ and the formal definition of an API...
Sometimes, committing to do something daily, looks a lot more difficult than perhaps a few days a week. That may be true, but actually following through may be the problem. I’ll say it here. I am not really good at going to the gym. Part of it, is that I am...
My recent milestone of getting to 500 subscribers on LinkedIn got me thinking on something. It was quite humbling, because I never set out to get to it. I am not “humble bragging” here, I swear. One of the things that crossed my mind was, “What have...
The journey to anything worth getting to is never linear. When climbing a steep mountain, the trail turns into a switchback. On a sailboat, by going in a Zig-Zag, we can sail against the wind. And even though we understand these things, yet we expect things to go...
Digital media has a feature that is almost a paradox. Digital media can be the most fragile way of storing information ever invented. Not just because magnetic media can be erased by a magnetic field, and that bad actors can alter it, but because a perfectly...
Some time ago, I was listening to a Fresh Air episode about the global supply chain and while hearing about the extreme complexity of properly orchestrating trans-shipment and to efficiently store each container, it came to mind how this could be used to explain two...
