Category: The Human Experience

I think blogging is probably done now.

I have just too many hobbies and as Sir Ken Robinson puts it:

“I’m frying an egg in here!”

If I take just a few minutes to think about what I would rather do with my free time:

 

  • Read a book with my kid
  • Spend time with my wife
  • Fix my house
  • Study hacks
  • Tweet
  • Read the news
  • Exploit #KRACK on the neighbors Wifi to get a better connection speed
  • Borrow Mr. Robot Season 3 from the Internet
  • Watch Mr. Robot Season 3
  • Delete Mr. Robot Season 3

 

It’s pretty clear that maintaining a blog is not my strong suit. It’s not my go to. It’s a thing I thought I should do to build a better more robust online presence. Not worth the time commitment.

This is specifically true in light of a narrative essay II had to write now that I’m back attending classes at a university. My desire to not be anonymous on the Internet and my desire to share what I actually think are often contradictory. This either makes me a phony or a sellout. Not sure which, but I can’t let this site just linger.

I setup that Certbot instance and got LetsEncrypt certificates started issuing over 4 months ago. What I have done since then? Certainly not put one on this site…sure I have considered moving it to Azure since I have a sweet deal on space. I could spin up a *nix VM and just make my life easier…. but would it really? I would learn a lot and it would be great…. but…. eh? Why bother.

I can’t use the Internet as a way to promote my technical skills *AND* as a platform for openly sharing my beliefs in equality, social justice, decriminalization of drugs, spirituality, and other topics that have nothing to do with my professional career. I’m locked out of deep sharing online because I too need to pay bills and have to maintain a very distinct professional edge.

TheWayBackMachine still has a lot of wonderful things I shared. I think I may commit this in that direction soon as well. Perhaps a few years from now when I’ve a few more zeros at the end of the account I’ll feel more comfortable sharing openly with the universe once again.

 

Reading: The End of Big

Nicco Mele; St. Martin’s Press 2013

 

I’m actually rereading it for the second time. I don’t completely disagree with the premise that the Internet is shaking up and in many cases laying waste to the institutions born from previous eras. I do however disagree that this will be the end of all big institutions. Rather I believe that big institutions will come and go at a much more rapid clip than ever before.

Remember Tom?

How quickly did MySpace disappear? How quickly will Blackberry disappear into irrelevance? Has it already happened (hope not… own stock)

Microsoft?

Facebook?

I am surrounded at work and my personal life by people that are searing off FB, logging in once a week instead of once a day. I no longer check my FB Messenger chats, reserving that for odd moments when I can’t get the endorphins rushing by refreshing my email.

At some point the big institutions that have been created will stick around for decades, but we aren’t through with Big yet. There is far too much disruption ahead in all fields to believe that we can accurately predict which companies will or will not be on top tomorrow.