How do you balance your professional life with your personal life? Do you have true friends? Do spend time with them? Are you there for your family whenever they need you? On the flip side, what are your achievements? Are you respected by your peer group? Not my original by…

An API is one of those words that us “tech bros” (can I say “tech sis”?) just throw around mindlessly, with disregard of the huge idea behind it. It stands for “Application Programming Interface’ and the formal definition of an API goes as: API n. a set of functions and…

Sometimes, committing to do something daily, looks a lot more difficult than perhaps a few days a week. That may be true, but actually following through may be the problem. I’ll say it here. I am not really good at going to the gym. Part of it, is that I…

Sometimes, committing to do something daily, looks a lot more difficult than perhaps a few days a week. That may be true, but actually following through may be the problem. I’ll say it here. I am not really good at going to the gym. Part of it, is that I…

My recent milestone of getting to 500 subscribers on LinkedIn got me thinking on something. It was quite humbling, because I never set out to get to it. I am not “humble bragging” here, I swear. One of the things that crossed my mind was, “What have I done to…

When churn begins to show up — The Daily PPILL # 130 The journey to anything worth getting to is never linear. When climbing a steep mountain, the trail turns into a switchback. On a sailboat, by going in a Zig-Zag, we can sail against the wind. And even though…

Resilience in Digital — The Daily PPILL # 129 Digital media has a feature that is almost a paradox. Digital media can be the most fragile way of storing information ever invented. Not just because magnetic media can be erased by a magnetic field, and that bad actors can alter…

Shipping Containers, work, and TCP/UDP? — The Daily PPILL # 128 Some time ago, I was listening to a Fresh Air episode about the global supply chain and while hearing about the extreme complexity of properly orchestrating trans-shipment and to efficiently store each container, it came to mind how this…

The value of sorting — The Daily PPILL # 127 This episode of PPILL brought to you courtesy of the tedious work of assembling IKEA furniture. When everything is commingled together, it takes us longer to find what we are looking for. So we have separated Large and Small eggs…