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...
Category: Practice
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....
Technology Innovation – Are We Lagging?
Are we technological laggards? Lawrence Solomon suggests we are. In his recent Financial Post column, Mr. Solomon laments that technological innovation of the past 70 years has not been of the same order of magnitude as the end of the 19th...
4 Lessons From My First Published e-Book
In my latest e-commerce experiment, I published my first e-book on Amazon. As with my AdSense experiment, this one may make me a few bucks, but that was not my primary goal. My primary goal was...
3 Lessons from Using AdSense for a Month
After my initial excitement with 2 days of earnings from Google AdSense, the month of June results for Reason for Success are much more modest. Yeah, I know. ‘Twas to be expected. However, this...
Free Images from Pixabay
Quick note today. I started using Pixabay recently for free images (including the ones in this post). According to their licensing, the images are free for commercial and non-commercial use. Great for adding to any...