Mastodon. You may have heard of it. In the era of Elon Musk’s deliberate-or-not work to burn Twitter to the ground, people are looking at alternatives. On the surface, Mastodon may look like Twitter, but there’s a lot under the hood that makes it better. A lot better. Mastodon is…

Tech’s 2021 Hiring Bonanza Was a Bad Idea — If you’ve taken even a cursory look at the news in the last week, you have likely seen the headlines. Talk about a bloodbath in tech lately. What do we name this? The Great Backlash? The Great Hiring Miscalculation? Or is it something more simple: The Great Inability To Plan…

I hate to devote more of my and your time to Twitter but alas, I have to because once again there has been another unthinkable action this company has taken. And while it may not have even been on the radar of many, it’s still an important development. Let’s get the obvious out of the way: Elon Musk has no care about anyone who his decisions affect. Not you, not me, not anyone. Over the…

By the way, did you know I’m almost useless? — With the massive proliferation of Amazon Echo / Alexa devices, Amazon found a gaping hole by which to get their hardware into people’s houses. For years Amazon has generally released shoddy, commodity (AKA crap) they sell at a loss in order to get you to use their services more. The…

Libraries Continue to Rock 🤘🏻 — One of the greatest achievements in the past decade has been the ability of local public libraries ability to shift to offering more and more digital items. In a world where many of our books, movies, music, and other things are digital they have kept up. Now in a very…

Being a decade late gave me the purest viewing experience — Being late is frowned upon in all etiquette circles however, there is one aspect of being late to something that has a benefit: entertainment. While some TV shows and movies are big hits and the subject of buzz, coming into something late gives a lot more perspective. Being a decade…

Or How I Learned I Actually Like Guacamole — Trying new things is always an endeavor. As kids, we can be quite reluctant to try new foods and experiences. As parents, we try to coax the younger generation into the things we know are good for them: eating veggies, going outside, being respectful, doing good in school, etc. Of…

From Iger to Chapek to Iger Again — In one of the most public about-faces in recent history, Disney is admitting they’ve screwed up. Late on Sunday night, they announced CEO Bob Chapek was out as head of the company to be replaced by Bob Iger. There wouldn’t even be a transition. Iger is back in control immediately…

Twitter keeps burning while Amazon & Meta drop 10k people. Oh and 👋🏻 bye FTX. — It’s been… a week in the tech sphere. So much so that I felt the need to write about it all in a Lightning Round update because it stretches far and wide. For starters, there’s the trainwreck that is Twitter & Elon Musk. To call it a crisis is an…