D onald Trump says that if he becomes president, he will “get Apple to start making their computers and their iPhones on our land, not in China.” Bernie ­Sanders has also called for Apple to manufacture some devices in the U.S. instead of China. Neither candidate could instantly make that happen. As…

IT’S one of the things we are most afraid might happen to us. We go to great lengths to avoid it. And yet we do it all the same: We marry the wrong person. Partly, it’s because we have a bewildering array of problems that emerge when we try to get close to others. We seem normal only to those who…

One of the big things that introverts want people to know is that “introversion is not the same as shyness.” And it isn’t — just because someone is introverted doesn’t mean they are shy, and there are plenty of shy extroverts as well (Susan Cain has an article about this). People tend to assume…

Next post Previous post Recently, bills have been introduced in both the California and New York State legislatures to force smartphone manufacturers and smartphone OS developers to incorporate backdoors into their devices so they can be decrypted against the owners’ wishes. Tech pundits have…

In October this year I had the privilege of speaking at the GothamGo conference in New York City. As I talk quite softly, and there were a few problems with the recording, I decided to write up my slide notes and present them here. If you want to see the video of this presentation, you can find it…

A few years ago I went to Spain for the first time, and like many I was surprised by how late is dinner . The first night I dined almost alone in a restaurant at 8pm, going away just as people were starting to come in. Of course this can be mostly explained by cultural reasons, but the clearly…