One week turned into two. Taking a short break is a good thing.
But, if I’m honest, I’m rather drained about the state of tech at the moment. It’s one bad story followed by another. From the obsequiousness, the knee-bending, and the sycophantic brown-nosing on display, the tech oligarchs have shown us in no uncertain terms that they are more about themselves than they are about their customers. It won’t last.
My apologies, there’ll be no writing this week.
A personal situation has kiboshed any plans I had to write anything about the past week.
I’m looking forward to getting back to normal next week.
Have a great week.
That’s it, done. The first month of the year is already over.
If it didn’t pass by at breakneck pace for you, I’d like a little bit of what you’re drinking please!
For this instalment, I’m not sur how much I am going to write as I start typing this out. It has been a strange couple of weeks for me on both a personal and professional footing. Various issues took up far too much time than I had anticipated and left me a little on the back foot to prepare a focused article here.
In what I can only describe as a fantastically depressing week, with events worldwide kicking off as expected, but simultaneously going further than anyone imagined.
I wanted to keep this blog apolitical, concentrating mostly on tech, with a little bit of cultural commentary thrown in and a dose of analysis to try to understand how technology has, is and will affect us in the region. That can no longer be the case because I cannot stand by and let powerful (and incredibly vicious) white me in Silicon Valley take everything away to make them and their cronies even richer than obscenely rich.
A picture tells a thousand words.
I didn’t set out to write this. I had planned on writing about the recent paper (Analog Privilege) that I read on a recent trip and came back with many notes in the margin of the printout. But events sometimes take over what you had thought about doing. What is it they say?
Best-laid plans are laid to waste.
Yeah.
This started life in the ‘of note’ column, and as I started writing it, I figured it would be better in the main section.