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Replacing Google

January 02, 2020 | 3 minute read

For years I've not used most of Google's services, but today as I read an article from Google's former head of International Relations, I was reminded to wri...

Happy Solstice and Self-Care Week!

December 27, 2019 | 2 minute read

For a couple of years, there was a lot of propaganda about the war on Christmas, that still resonates with me. It makes me wonder about anyone who made such ...

Ideas Guy

December 10, 2019 | 2 minute read

For over a decade I've been identified as "the ideas guy". This is mostly from founding ideasmeetings.org, which I ran for about 7 years in Victoria, BC, and...

Device-As-A-Service (DaaS)

December 10, 2019 | 1 minute read

I propose a vendor (Let's call this DaaSVendor for today) that prioritizes on minimizing planned obsolesce through modular computing -- a device-as-a-service...

What type of entrepreneur are you?

December 05, 2019 | 5 minute read

To me, there seems to be three types of entrepreneurs -- inventors, innovators, and iterators. Because we don't distinguish between these very distinct types...