The word hacking got associated with the cybercrime, instead of "tinkering". It still represents a challenge. Hack your productivity, for example, still holds appeal to me because there is so much we can do to improve the gains of efficiency. And ironically, probably by utter coincidence, but ironically indeed, all the new power brokers of … Continue reading C0DE517E: Is true hacking dead? What we lost. →

I had been discussing Netflix/Amazon Prime with someone in the light of the "streaming wars". It was almost too tempting to draw parallels with the healthcare industry, but we'd consider this scenario first: When streaming video companies release single data points, they usually only give us two of the five W’s. First, they give us … Continue reading Big Data: When Streaming Companies Use Data to Win the PR Wars →