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Marketeers’ relentness efforts for your attention

Notification spam

One of my pet peeves is notification spam. Yesterday, I got one from Apple TV reminding me to watch a baseball game. I don’t watch baseball and never watched a game on TV in my life. I’ve no idea what prompted Apple to send me that, but I immediately disabled notifications from the TV app. […]

Growing your startup

Ownership

Yesterday I had a good discussion about how to manage teams and people inside fast-growing organizations. One effective way I favor is making sure every team and person has clear ownership in their own domain. Assuming people are onboard and aware of the mission and vision of the company, ownership gives everyone – person, team […]

UX comes in small packages

When I stay in Las Vegas, I usually book the same hotel. I like this hotel. It’s just off the strip and has no casino. It’s more quiet and I like it that way. The elevator button panel though drives me nuts though. It takes too many brain cycles to select the right button. Here’s […]

Hotel Wifi

It’s interesting how hotel wifi used to be a major thing in my life when traveling and today it isn’t. Yesterday, I traveled to Vegas for a conference. I would not be able to tell you if the wifi in my hotel is free or any good. This used to be such a big deal. […]

Tech wars

When Titans Fight

Apple, Google and Amazon are the most valuable companies in the world and they’re fighting to each other. Unfortunately it’s the consumer who loses in this fight. A few examples: Apple’s products are not officially available on Amazon Same applies to many of Google’s products The Nest skill on Amazon Alexa is a joke You […]

Honey, I broke the internet!

I’ve been an adblocker since early 2000s. I did it for three reasons: – Reduce cognitive load of the web – ads are meant to grab your attention but distract you from the actual content – Speed up browsing – ads slows down page loading significantly. – Privacy and tracking prevention Early on adblocking didn’t […]

Browser Fingerprinting

Yesterday, I was reading an excellent review by Ars Technica on Mojave. One of the new features which stood out to me is the new fingerprinting protection in Safari 12. In the article a few sites are mentioned to test your browser and I tried them all out: Browserprint Am I unique? Panopticlick by EFF […]

HD Earth Viewing System (HDEV) at Home

On April 30th, 2014 the HD Earth Viewing System was installed on the ISS. It consists of four cameras pointed at the earth. The goal of the experiment is to test the longevity of off-the-shelf commercial video cameras in space. The views are absolutely breathtaking. When I came across it back, I was absolutely mesmerized […]

Sunday Morning Ritual

My favorite cherished Sunday morning ritual is reading PostSecret with a coffee. Wherever I am, it’s a small moment of peace and contemplation. I can hide from “the world” for a few minutes. What I like about PostSecret, is that it puts me in touch with my own feelings. They’re little jolts of empathy and […]

Bye Medium and Squarespace

Back to the future – hello WordPress

After a journey of a few years to Medium and then Squarespace, my blog is back on a self-hosted Wordpress site. I've been blogging for a decade and hosting my own website for two. Here's the story.