When the myth of the visionary founder flounders: push back!
Tesla has announced it’s phasing out its cars’ use of ultrasonic sensors (USS) to sense objects in the world around them. It’s part of the company’s shift towar...
Author: charlie
It’s time we hack the shit out of this virus
The subvariant, known as XBB, accounted for about 52.6% of all cases in New England during the period of time between Dec. 18 and Dec. 24, according to CDC data...
Pause for station identification
Yes, another station ID post. And, not that you’re keeping score, normally I have large gaps between them. Alas, we live in Strange Times and strange thin...
Jammin’ to the venture beat. And my first patent thrown in for good measure.
Back at the end of 2002, if I recall correctly, Nokia set up an internal Venture Challenge – a challenge to have folks submit ideas, find some promising o...
Teasing out my cultural connections through genetics
Special note: Talking about personal genetics is difficult: what you say not only reveals so much about you, but also your parents, your siblings, and your chil...
“The road less traveled”: getting it wrong, but getting it right
Back in 2014, I was invited back to my graduate school as part of a professional development series for science grad students. Most of the speakers before me we...
My greatest story, never much told: Nokia Cloud
In early 2004, I joined the small Nokia Lifeblog team to lead sales and marketing. Over the roughly 18 months I was with the team, I learned so much about the f...
Unlocking value in plain sight: not as common as you’d think
I like to walk expo floors that have a lot of machines, gadgets, and gizmos and engage with vendors, doing some research and testing out some ideas. Last fall, ...
Why changing your spots is hard: shifting a business from hardware to software
Shifting from a hardware business to a software business is not easy. Organizations need to be prepared to make the changes necessary to succeed.
Living the IoT dream: adding to my vaccine fridge monitor
In a previous post, I talked about how I worked on a vaccine fridge monitor that was designed to alert me over Pushover if anything was going on with the fridge...