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What you need to do.
I’ve been busy lately with coding, with family, with the kids. That doesn’t leave a lot of time for blogging. Especially if you want to *do* something like writing your own analytics for Twitter 🙂 which sorta consumes you if you are just a one-man show.
But sometimes you find something that is worth mentioning. Heck that is worth shouting out for and saying, Yep! This is it !
So without further ado: This is what an entrepreneur (or anybody else for that matter) needs to do. Image by Bud Caddell.
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Technology Advancement (1990)
When I left for work this morning, I took my iPad with me. While I was reading my mails in the train via my 3G connection, I suddenly realised how much advancement we have made, how much easier things are now technology wise speaking:
In 1990 when I was studying Information Science (or started to) :
- email was something used in universities
- bulletin boards via dial-up modem were still the rage
- Punch cards where still a required learning subject, so was assembly code
- I learned C (not C++) via a terminal on a mainframe that emulated C in order to run it, and took up a whole room
- We still had big rule printers in separate rooms which made the most godawful noise printing on paper fed from a box below them
- We had Winchester disks for our mainframe, mounted on wooden blocks. When our class initiated the database queries we learned, they all vibrated like washing machines.
The year after I graduated, they replaced the whole caboodle with 2 Unix machines that fit in 2 shoe boxes – one for the hard drive, one for the cpu.
And now, almost 20 years later, I’m reading my email via a wireless 3G connection on an ultra-slim touch-enabled device that seems to have dropped out of some futuristic movie, and it seems that hardly any time has passed.
But in reality, lots has changed in those years. And when I think back on those years without the internet, I feel so very happy to be able to participate in this, the knowledge available at my fingertips, the social media to find just the right persons to communicate with, the speed with which you can do calculations, the ability to share your work with others, the connectedness of it all.
And I’m just really glad to be here in the now and not 20 years ago 🙂
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I find this touching.
“Though my soul may set in darkness it will rise in perfect light.
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
– from The Old Astronomer by Sarah Williams
I’ve analysed and graphed the last 30 days of twitter activity for the #nmbs hashtag.
You can immediately see that May 26 was a ‘special’ day…
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Empathic Civilisation
Those Royal Society videos are actually really good to get the gist of something quickly! Here’s one that presents some findings about empathy and how this might affect us all in the long run.
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Sam is 5 years old.
How the time has passed!
He’s almost ready to cycle on 2 wheels, he’s totally different from Tom, has a big mouth but a small heart. He does things his own unique way.
Happy 5th birthday, my independent little man !
Quote: If you pay enough money to people to take money out of the equation, then people are motivated to focus on the job instead of on getting enough money.
Had a lovely breakfast in bed, prepared by my eldest son Tom with help of Dolores. Sam munged along. It’s nice to wake up to being 42 years old that way.
Oh and I posted a new article on my ‘serious’ blog :Â Is facebook the new social control ?