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Telling stories

Often, I have to explain highly technical concepts to people who are unfamiliar even with the basics. It's hard to educate them in a short time prior to getting to the actual subject. It might not even worth the effort as they don't need to understand the underlying details to grasp the core of what I'm trying to tell them.

Mixed felings, Google

As I have been anxiously waiting for a new phone and especially the release of Pixel 4 I decided to watch the whole Made by Google event yesterday live.

Straight from the start I was impressed on Googles efforts for the environment. They have been carbon neutral since 2007 and are constantly pushing and supporting their supplier network to achieve the same. They are also looking into ways to make their products more sustainable: for example using recycled materials in Nest or removing the need to buy new devices all the time with Stadia.

When technology bites back

Today there is a lot of technology that can make our life easier.  It's ubiquitous, everywhere. We can count on it instead of trying to do everything ourself, to try to remember or know everything.

But it doesn't always work as expected. We rely on it and make expectations that might not always hold true. Technology is not infallible. When we trust the technology too much it might fail us at the worst time.

Charting new technologies

As an architect and technology strategist, it's my job to choose the technologies we use in projects. It's not always easy, especially when you meant to move forward and explore new technologies while still keep the delivered services robust. At the same time we should be innovating and choose stable, boring technologies.

 It's a challenge to balance those two. But in the end moving forward is the only option. New technologies need to be evaluated and tested. Not everything will end up in our toolbox and most importantly not everything should be changed at once. 

It's all about the pixels

Until now I still believed my trusty old Canon would trump modern phone cameras. But after comparing the results from a photoshoot where I decided to give both cameras a try it was apparent the inevitable wheel of technological advancement has finally passed the quality of reasonably priced cameras in the form of not so long a go what could have been considered poor replacement to real camera.

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