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Daily Habits – The Daily PPILL #132

Daily Habits – The Daily PPILL #132

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...
Resilience in Digital – The Daily PPILL # 129

Resilience in Digital – The Daily PPILL # 129

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...
The value of sorting – The Daily PPILL # 127

The value of sorting – The Daily PPILL # 127

This episode of PPILL brought to you courtesy of the tedious work of assembling IKEA furniture. When everything is commingled together, it takes us longer to find what we are looking for. So we have separated Large and Small eggs so they can be sold with different...
The map is never followed – The Daily PPILL #122

The map is never followed – The Daily PPILL #122

I have been involved quite a bit lately with mapping Customer Journeys. Just in case you don’t know what that is, it is a simple concept: Every customer goes through a number of steps before they purchase something, and this journey sometimes also continues long...
Non invertible functions – The Daily PPILL #117

Non invertible functions – The Daily PPILL #117

This is quite a nerdy one. One of the things used quite a lot in cryptography, is what are called “non invertible functions”. These are mathematical functions that by operating on something they give you a result, but the inverse function either doesn’t exist, or its...
Please, don’t push all the buttons – The Daily PPILL #112

Please, don’t push all the buttons – The Daily PPILL #112

It is really hard, and quite a drag, to go 10, 15 floors up (or down). Two or four flights of stairs, not so much. So if you had the power to design a business building and determine where each of the occupants will reside, Who would you place on the ground floor,...