You don’t have to build the next Google to get noticed
Everybody thinks you need to be Google or Facebook or Uber if you want to make a real impact. But that's a lot of work and requires you to lock yourself in for a long time to a life of programming...
How Much Screen Time is Too Much
Screen addiction is a real thing. If you are skeptical please read on. When you are looking at a screen, you get heightened moments of elation, a release of dopamine, a neurochemical associated with...
Shocking, but a clear message
The people have spoken, and they would rather have a man who defrauded people with a fake university, doesn't pay any taxes on millions in earnings and has multiple accusations of sexual assault...
People Engage More With Negativity
Every time my website Live Work Play Japan posts something controversial we get an increase of about 20-30% responses. Most of them are negative, and those negative responses get more...
Our Outrage is Short Lived
Every day I see people posting causes on Facebook. "The bees are dying, we need to do something. Like and share." "Look at this picture of a child from Syria after his town was bombed. Like, comment...
Black Mirror – Nosedive
So far my favourite of all the Black Mirror episodes of Season 3 is Nosedive. Why? Its true already. People are living based on what people think of them and their social media accounts. The simple...
Why the Good Ol’ Days are Gone Forever.
When you say something it has meaning. When you write something that has meaning that can be passed on. Despite what people might think, the internet was not invented for cat videos and to share...
Cancer is directly linked to sugar – Fats don’t make you fat.
Sugar is in everything now. I remember as a kid when everyone was trying to reduce how much fat they were eating. It's funny, right? Because fats don't make you fat, sugar does! I live in Japan and...
Who Are You?
I'm going to answer the questions here publicly because I think it is important to declare your intentions. I am writing this blog now in large part as a record, to be honest and open, and then in a...
Compliance
The more compliant you are, the more useless you are. You will be replaced by someone cheaper, because there is always someone cheaper. Instead of complaining that your compliant jobs are going to...