Year: 2021

“As of January, posts tied to #stockmarket had garnered over 800 million views on TikTok, more than triple the figure in June. Reddit’s infamous WallStreetBets forum has more than doubled in subscribers since the start of 2020.”

https://t.co/zaG9hmp96C https://t.co/UMK2JNdSEo

“Coronavirus has sparked an exodus of immigrants from the UK and what is likely to be the largest fall in Britain’s population since the second world war”

Coronavirus sparks exodus of foreign-born people from UK https://t.co/RZp78b2AFp https://t.co/jI9JhpLpFW

One of the main reasons discouraging people from entering a new field is how intimidating it is to confront experts in that field. Yet, if you wait long enough in life, many of those experts are proven wrong, and many theories considered Truth are misinterpretation. Fear nothing.

@fintanr Right. Bitcoin.

@robbeekmans That is true. On the other side, cars are becoming more comfortable (partial self-drive), more entertaining (monitor), and cheaper (insurance by the mile). And some people were horrified by public transport because of germs already before #COVID19. Lots of forces to consider.

I’m afraid that even after #COVID19 will be gone, it will take a long time for people to regain trust in public transportation.

From https://t.co/4A2QAPmBgX https://t.co/bRVs5YHOvB

“Any effort to get customers is marketing. Any effort to get customers and keep them is branding. For companies with vision, branding is the more strategic path.”

From “The Brand Flip” (Marty Neumeier)

I managed to move 5 contacts from WhatsApp and FB Messenger to @signalapp in the last 2 days.

Use Signal.

@IamStan I have 100 slides *after* filtering edge-washing material.

It turns out that to explain the #edgecomputing market landscape in 2021, vendor offerings and pricing, product UIs, and architecture examples, you cannot do with less than 100 slides. And that is the bare minimum.

Imagine how complicated that is.