Tag: GoogleApps

  • Google has many overwhelming advantages. It has vast access to data, access to customers, access to capital and talent. It has TPUs. It has tons of places to take advantage of what it creates. It has the trust of customers, I’ve basically accepted that if Google turns on me my digital life gets rooted. By…

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  • Not helpful

    I am in my Gmail, and I open up the Gemini side bar and type: Flag emails I should just archive. The criteria is that if they are not directly to me, probably archive. Also if they are old, probably archive. Only save emails where there is some direct question to me or task I…

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  • The whole arc of OpenStack

    The whole arc of OpenStack

    This was a fun discussion: Also, subscribe to the podcast! During the interview I realized that there’s a lot of my professional-life friends that I’ve know for 20+ years across all sorts of companies, wave after of wave of tech trends, etc., including Melissa. I’m lucky to be in that situation. Relative to your interests…

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  • Modern Work Fucking Sucks. – Attack of the SaaS productivity apps. // Maybe it’d be better to just use one suite of tools: Office 364 or Google Apps, i.e., the #defaultslifestyle. // It’s easy to fall into the habit of planning and showing progress in work instead of just doing the work.

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  • Sometimes, you need start with the explanation and see what opinion fits

    Sometimes, you need start with the explanation and see what opinion fits

    These 5 tactics are good for a 13 year old student or an adult knowledge worker Here are the five test taking and essay test taking tips I shared with Cormac: If you’re doing the assignment in Google Docs, or whatever, of possible, copy and paste the questions into your document. This way, you have…

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  • Link: Ordering from voice tubes

    “Purchases made through devices such as Google Home and Amazon’s Echo are projected to leap from $2 billion to $40 billion by 2022 as technology improves, U.S. consumers become more comfortable and the speakers become nearly as commonplace in homes as a flat-screen TV, according to a new study from OC&C Strategy Consultants.” More: “Shoppers…

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  • Link: Women Once Ruled Computers. When Did the Valley Become Brotopia?

    “There is another story to tell: that Google’s success had at least as much to do with women like Wojcicki, Sandberg, and—her controversial tenure as CEO of Yahoo! notwithstanding—Mayer. Each of them brought wider skill sets to the company in its earliest days. If subsequent managers at Google understood this lesson, that might have quieted…

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  • Link: People love Google’s new feature that matches your selfie to a famous painting

    Oh, so that’s what all those pictures are. Original source: People love Google’s new feature that matches your selfie to a famous painting

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  • Link: The surprising thing Google learned about its employees — and what it means for today’s students

    While I don’t disagree with this kind of ASTOUNDING FINDING, what it usually means that in addition to engineering, it turns out you need these other skills. I sure STEM is necessary, but not sufficient to be a good nerd in corporate America: “among the eight most important qualities of Google’s top employees, STEM expertise…

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  • Link: Gartner: Cloud Email Adoption Still in Early Stages

    “The cloud email market is still in the early stages of adoption, Gartner said, with 13 percent of identified publicly listed companies globally using one of the two main cloud email vendors, Microsoft Office 365 or Google Apps for Work, respectively. With the majority of companies opting for smaller vendors, the cloud email opportunity is…

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