by davenelsen | Jan 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
We live in an exponentially-accelerating technological world. It’s impossible for the linearly-accelerating (?) human brain to keep up without aid. Are you getting as much support from technology as you should be … and as is required for future...
by davenelsen | Dec 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
Unbelievably, I’ve been blogging since 2009 (and podcasting since 2005) and I’ve never told you about my favorite app, what I call my second brain. Without it, I’d be half as productive. If you embrace it, you’ll be twice as productive. I’m talking about...
by davenelsen | Feb 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
These days, people are constantly talking about “the cloud”, as in cloud computing. It turns out that a lot people don’t understand what the cloud is or why it’s important. I first realized this a few months when I saw a surprising stat and I was prepared to make up...
by davenelsen | Oct 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
I read this morning that Marriott was fined $600,000 for blocking Internet access. Hooray! Click here to read about it. But it got me wondering how much China would owe. As I write this, I’m on one of the fastest trains on the planet, moving at exactly 304 km/h (over...
by davenelsen | Apr 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
We live in a world of accelerating change. Ray Kurzweil, the respected futurist, predicts that by 2045, we’ll experience a 1,000,000,000-fold increase in what he calls “human-machine knowledge” relative to 2010. That’s hard to conceptualize but looked at another way,...
by davenelsen | Mar 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
There’s a powerful, new way to organize the information in your professional and personal life. It called tagging. It’s a radical departure from using hierarchical folders… within folders… within folders… whether in electronic (on your computer) or physical (in your...
