One year ago today (9/19/2018), Hurricane María was getting closer and closer to #PuertoRico. While the actual landfall of the hurricane’s eye occurred on 9/20/17, as you can see from the video that I took below, its effects were being felt already. I…
It is interesting the first paragraph of Working with Protocols (from Apple’s Developer Website, Programming with Objective-C). Is Apple making a point? :-) Working with Protocols In the real world, people on official business are often required to follow strict procedures when dealing with certain…
(Source: Watching Kung Fu) Successful Product Management (PM) requires earning the trust of others, ownership and proactiveness, and great discipline. The day-to-day of a PM goes beyond product vision and definition, and business-related activities. The main job of a product manager owner is…
When designing a feature, application, solution or platform, its unintended consequences must be considered as part of the design. I have noticed a large increase in the number of unsolicited InMail messages on LinkedIn. As a side note, I also recently added LinkedIn…
It was a Sunday morning, and I was watering the front yard. To time the watering, I had a timer running on my Echo Show. But I was preempted with another task, and I didn’t want to leave the timer running and going…
In Media and Journalism, content is King, but today, having good content is not enough. Having unique content is much better, but still, it’s not enough. The journey towards Digital content and revenue can be complex as it requires the right people and…
Digital transformation means that organizations need to become software-driven. The Low/No-Code (L/NC) approach to software development, a point-and-click, drag-and-drop or configuration-based approach to creating applications, aims to disrupt how this transformation takes place. In this essay, I cover two perspectives on Low/No-Code: the…
“You wanted obedience, Cullin — now you have it. You climbed a long way up by forcing human beings to behave like machines. But you were wrong in one respect; no human can ever be forced to behave exactly like a machine, and…
The current debacle with Facebook has been brewing for a while now, and it is very sad. For me it started last year, when I got tired of constant fake news and privacy concerns. Since then I’ve had next to zero activity on…
This SXSW 2018 I want to pay tribute to Carlo Longino (@caaarlo): Austinite, mobile pioneer, visionary and supporter, Mobile Monday Austin co-organizer, who passed away last October 2017. He was only 39 years old. At the time I was working in Puerto Rico,…