The Real Ugly Truth
While Kang and Frenkel provide a deep dive into Facebook’s history, the real ugly truth centers on the conflicting and biased writing embedded within.
Category: Practice
The confusing world of merchant services
Recently, my wife, owner of Firefly Wine Shop, asked me to review a company offering merchant services. Within 30 minutes of research, I tumbled down the rabbit hole of payment systems, getting progressively more...
Post-Production Podcast Process: Step-by-step
Do you know what the hardest part of podcasting is? No, its not finding topics or interviewees. No, its not the actual recording itself. It’s dealing with post-production process. Long, tedious, and technical. Yet,...
Bad Blood: A Story of Ethical Maleficence
Founded in 2003, Theranos became the darling of Silicon Valley as the hot new biotech startup that promised to revolutionize the medical industry. With just a drop of blood, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes promised...
Net Neutrality: What it is and what it isn’t
Whether you agree or disagree with Net Neutrality, it’s important to understand all the facts. Unfortunately, the proponents of Net neutrality often cherry pick them. With the upcoming Day of Action for Net Neutrality,...
The Luddites are Back
In the evening of November 12, 1811, a group of workers collected in the moors of Nottingham, England. After 2 successful attacks on local industries, they wanted more. Tonight they were drilling and practicing...
The First Global Platform to Avoid Meaningful Conversation
All week, I’ve been trying to stay off of Facebook. In fact on Wednesday, I kinda, sorta didn’t want to hear the results. I didn’t like either major party candidate and the one third...
Apple versus the FBI: Lessons from my MBA class
The terrorist attacks and deaths in San Bernardino last year were tragic and deserve justice. In the FBI’s efforts to investigate the case, they are pursuing every method they can to gather information about the culprits....
Apple’s Fight for Your Privacy
Recently, Apple announced they were publicly fighting a court order to help the FBI to decrypt a phone in the San Bernardino terrorist attacks. From my understanding, the court is ordering Apple to re-write...
The Origins of the Internet
How did the Internet start? Who invented such a thing? Why did it almost fail? I recently finished a fascinating book called Where the Wizards Stay Up Late by Katie Hefner and Matthew Lyon....