We're living in an interesting age. There's an app for that. For anything. No matter how simple. We've turned apps and technology into a fetish and we try to use it to solve every problem, even when it's the wrong tool. Sometimes (I daresay often), the technological...
My article on Skype exposing address books to the world has gone mini-viral. Written in 2017, it's gotten dozens of citations in early 2019. A reporter approached me, asking if the problem still exists. After doing some research, here's what I've found. Microsoft’s...
iOS 9 marks the first iOS release where my thought has been a pretty consistent "Well, I guess Apple's jumped the shark." Most of the reviews I've read of iOS 9 have apparently been written by sycophantic Apple fanboys who don't actually use their phones to do...
This article, originally printed in Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge gives several different techniques for helping get email under control. The article was one of the most-read articles at HBS, has been translated into more than 7 languages, and reprinted in Entrepreneur.com, and several magazines.
I'm in awe. Normally, I'm not a huge fan of big corporations. I think they often (but not always) dehumanize the people who work there. They can ruin communities in the name of efficient and cost-cutting, and they distribute wealth in truly bizarre ways. But... But......
Computer challenge questions for websites make us less secure, not more.
Managing information overload, email overload, and divorcing technology worked well for one reader of Get-it-Done Guy’s 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More. This post contains her story.
The cloud has made us more productive than trying to duplicate our files on all machines. But has it made us more productive than pencil and paper?
I just read this article in the Atlantic about how the Net has changed the way the article's author thinks. He's wondering what the larger, societal effects will be. Being The Atlantic, he's also savvy enough to realize there may be unintended good consequences that...