Spotify is the latest company to copy TikTok — but at what cost? — If you can’t beat them, join them. This phrase appropriately describes the tech industry over the last five years. Innovation has been drying up, replaced by frenzied copying and maniac desperation to implement the current trend into a product, regardless of whether it makes sense to do so. The king…

And I’ve felt guilty about it ever since. — I would wake up most mornings at 8:00 am, lying there for a moment, taking in the warm sunlight that was stretching across the room, before getting up to make breakfast. The food schedule would tell me it was fruit salad, yogurt, vitamin drink, and a cup of tea —…

We’ve burned through a copious amount of ‘next big things’ in the last few years — and the latest one is here — Crypto. NFTs. Metaverse. Web3/Web5. It’s well known that technology moves at breakneck speed, but the last few years have seen the tech industry burn through copious amounts of next “big thing” at record pace. …

Cost of entry is no longer just your attention — If the product is free, you are the product. It’s the defining phrase of the current era of social media. It’s the idea that because we aren’t paying to use the service, we, the users, are the product. The cost of entry is not monetary; it’s our eyeballs and our…

You can’t become something without doing something — Everyone wants to be something. But not everyone wants to put in the work and effort required to become something. Austin Kleon put it best when he wrote, “lots of people want to be the noun without doing the verb.” In part, it’s understandable. It’s great to say that you’re…

You won’t find success by mimicking someone else’s life — Sometimes, when I watch someone do what they do best, something happens inside of me. A fire lights in my stomach. My eyes widen. I’m inspired! I immediately hunt down every detail of their journey, so I can implement all their secrets into my own life. You probably see where…

Humans out. Robots in. — When ChatGPT reared its artificial head and took the world (read: Twitter threads) by storm, the cynics among us — myself included — feared it would soon steal our writing jobs. When I asked it that very question, its response was less doom-mongering than I expected: “While it is unlikely…

Have money to flush down the toilet? This one is for you — Every time I write about NFTs, I end with the same logical argument. Until real use cases for the technology appear that are useful to the wider population, it will continue to be a get-rich-quick scheme that very few will get rich from. Well, ask, and you shall receive. On…

The meme stocks will soon be penny stocks — What do you get when you mix pandemic-forced lockdowns, stimulus checks, the Reddit sub r/WallStreetBets, access to the entire trading market in the palm of your hand, and a collective desire to disrupt the status quo and stick it to the man? Yup, you guessed it. Meme stocks. This perfect…