Tag: ccos
Digging behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and digitized medicine, Carr explores the hidden costs of allowing software to take charge of our jobs and our lives. Drawing on history and philosophy, poetry and science, he makes a compelling case that the dominant Silicon Valley ethic is sapping our skills and narrowing our horizons.
Blurb from Nicholas Carr’s upcoming book, The Glass Cage
He points out there is no need to check if you have new email: you have. Everyone always has new mail waiting. No one complains about not getting enough email.
Touch Me – Connected Culture and Oblique Strategies – Episode 8
Episode #8 of CCOS is up, Chris and I discuss all sorts of things including shoes and ServiceNow vs. BMC. Plus, we do Home Screen Palmistry of Christ’s phone!
Check out the show notes on SoundCloud for more, and here’s the iTunes link to subscribe.
Touch Me – Connected Culture and Oblique Strategies – Episode 8
Most IT pros not actively preparing for the impact of the IoT – Spiceworks Survey
Self-referential brain-melt loop.
Extreme Travel Tips and Brony Talk – Connected Culture and Oblique Strategies – Episode 7
Episode 7 of CCOS is up, with the video above, the raw audio to download directly, or you can subscribe to the podcast feed as always.
Extreme Travel Tips and Brony Talk – Connected Culture and Oblique Strategies – Episode 7
“On Being an Analyst”: the output of this morning’s shower-think. It’d be a fun book to write; who doesn’t love talking about themselves?!
Working up Twitter, and then letting it take over
I have to work myself up in the morning to Twitter, because it’s so immediate and stressful. You shouldn’t have to dive completely into it. At first I’ll scroll through, and see if there’s anything from the last half hour or so that I may have missed while I was getting myself mentally prepared for the day. Then I’m off and running.
For the rest of the day, Twitter is the ruler of everything. I think that’s not an uncommon thing for people in our line of work to say. It’s really trumped everything else. When I started this job almost four years ago, I wasn’t even on Twitter and I barely used it as a source. But then, gradually, it took over my entire brain.
Jack Mirkinson, Senior Media Editor at The Huffington Post.
