Lost in Complexity

Information technology can be incredibly unforgiving. In all the effort made to error trap on data entry, software can be overbearing.. Yes, on one hand, thank God there is built-in error checking. Preventing the preventable…and automating that which can be Read more…

Entropy and Ergodicity

The concepts of entropy and ergodicity are very different, but they are very much related in my mind. I think they are similar because both of these concepts explain why things that are supposed to happen don’t happen. Entropy has Read more…

What is information anyway

The broad definition of information that I am using here is “any bit of data that can be transmitted.” Whether it is received, captured, understood and understood as intended to be understood is a different and more difficult question to Read more…

Squandered Internet

The squandered Internet isn’t really a thing. Sure people complain about the Internet. It is a remarkable time suck (hello cat video people and meme makers), but it has also empowered some pretty great things… In a decentralized way, it Read more…

Maybe it’s Maybelline

Maybe it’s schadenfreude or maybe it’s Maybelline…I confess that I almost always root for the experts to be wrong. When the experts are wrong, it kind of proves my point…And then I am the expert. At the same, I can’t Read more…