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Two unethical “business” models
It was pointed out to me that there are two more ways people make money, and that means there are two more “business” models of some kind. I didn’t list them in my original post as “business” models because, to me, they are so awful: 4. Take valuable things from others by force Bank robbery,…
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2014 — The Year of Technology Backlash?
This past year, we learned that just about every device we own can be, or already has been rooted by others, and just about anything we do on-line is being recorded and kept around for years. Our movements are recorded, and our (intentional or accidential) fellow travelers. And something as simple as visiting a website…
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Disagreeing with Roger Penrose
… which, of course, takes a large amount of chutzpah, and a much larger amount of over-self-confidence, given that leading-edge physics is really not my field at all. (Penrose on Wikipedia.) Which of course will not keep me from doing it anyway. So I recently chewed my way through his classic “The Emperor’s New Mind“,…
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Personal data is difficult even when baking Christmas cookies
When talking about personal data, usually it all sounds very noble and sophisticated. The use cases are advanced and complex. But the problem definitely is real and difficult to solve for even the most mundane situations. Case in point: baking Christmas cookies. We have a new recipe we found on-line for Lemon Cookies. Let’s say…
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There are only Three Base Business Models
[Updated 2014-01-05: for completeness reasons, here are two more categories: 4) robbing people, and 5) taking advantage of people. In my book, they don’t qualify as “business” models because they are borderline or actually criminal, but they do exist.] If you put all business models into the following three buckets, suddenly all sorts of things…