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Living Longer, Healthier, And Better

Each year I get a little bit more focused on what I can be doing to get more out of my time and to increase the quantity of time left. Even with a renewed focus on health, it isn’t always easier. As my friend Ben Hardy says, Willpower Doesn’t Work – you have to identify goals that are bigger than yourself, create consequences and rewards for achieving or failing to achieve those goals, and change your environment to make success easy.   I don’t just

Fueling Alpha: Data Is Powering The New World

Data is becoming a precious commodity. A staggering 90% of all the world’s data (2.5 quintillion bytes per day) has been created in the past two years alone … and its value is rapidly rising. With IoT growing from 2 billion devices in 2006 to a projected 200 billion by 2020 you can expect to see that growth continue to explode. Data is today’s “wild west” and the battlefield of today’s tech titans. Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft all have an unprecedented amount of data (and power). Rapid growth

Taking Stealing To The Next Level: Baseball And Machine Learning

Baseball signals are purposely confusing to keep them a secret.  Attempting to decode your opponents’ signals is part of the game. As it turns out, machine learning is pretty good at figuring them out.  Mark Rober, a former NASA engineer on the Curiosity Rover, put together a good video showing its efficiency. It’s an interesting application and a pretty good introduction to machine learning. It did the rounds in my office, and we liked it.  via Mark Rober So, what do you think,

Biohacking Gone Wild

Dave Asprey is perhaps the most well-known biohacker (he’s even referenced in Merriam-Webster’s definition of biohacker) and the founder of Bulletproof. For those that don’t know, a biohacker is someone who uses drugs and technology to make their body/mind function better.  Dave and I shot a video where he discusses life and provides an interesting take on algorithms.  It’s not surprising that biohacking has become as popular as it has. In a society that encourages (maybe even necessitates) an impossible balance between work, responsibilities, and self-care

Replicas: Deep Fakes And Voice Replication

Fake news was scary enough … but now it is going to a new level.  Technology is going to make it harder to find the “signal” in the “noise”. Here is a preview of tech solutions (which already exist) that are likely to create a new set of problems and challenges for us in the future. Replica is a company whose goal is to replicate celebrity voices. They see this as enabling creative applications of their voices without the commitment of the celebrity –

If The Internet Goes Down Does The World Crumble?

On Tuesday, for less than an hour, early in the workday, it felt like the internet was down for many.  The cause? Cloudflare went down. Cloudflare offers web services to over 16 million websites. That includes sites like HubSpot, Medium, UpWork, 9gag, Discord, Sirius XM, Shopify, Coinbase, Canva, Soundcloud, Buzzfeed, and Capitalogix. Even down detector was down.  That means when Cloudflare went down, so did a non-trivial portion of the internet. W3techs reports approximately 10% of the internet was affected by Cloudflare being down.  What happened? via DigitalAttackMap There was a