Month: July 2025

Today, our online lives run on systems we don’t control. We rent our money from banks. We rent our AI from cloud services. We rent our communication from platforms that monetize our every move. Behind all the innovation lies a creeping dependency on centralized actors – tech giants, financial institutions, and opaque algorithms that decide … Read more

In January 2016, Credit Suisse released a report that examined the market implications of blockchain, which, back then, was only just outlining itself as an emerging technology. The report found that among thought leaders, the industry on which blockchain was destined to have the largest impact was finance, with 77% of executive-level respondents interviewed pinpointing … Read more

More specifically known as the ftPSI-AD ( fuzzy threshold Private Set Intersection with Associated Data ) protocol. EDIT 2021/09/04: Apparently as I was procrastinating writing this article Apple has agreed to postpone the roll out of the system. EDIT 2023/09/20: I procrastinated long enough to for the whole thing to have been scrapped. https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/08/31/apple-provides-detailed-reasoning-behind-abandoning-iphone-csam-detection Disclaimer: … Read more

When Silicon Valley envisioned the metaverse, it promised us virtual shopping malls, avatars in luxury sneakers, and office meetings in cartoonish boardrooms. It was slick, noisy, speculative — and, ultimately, underwhelming. Investors chased hype cycles. Marketers chased Gen Z. But somewhere offstage, quietly and deliberately, the metaverse began to fulfill its real potential — not … Read more

By 2025, more startups than ever compete in the scene, and more opportunities can be gained. Through AI instruments, platform switch, and consumer behavioral change, a traditional marketing or word-of-mouth are no longer sufficient as a tool to earn early-stage startups. It is necessary to employ growth hacking it means trying different, low-cost methods of … Read more

Some products don’t need to announce their presence. They don’t scream “Look what I can do” or require a guided tour to be useful. They simply fit. These types of products integrate into a user’s flow seamlessly, and while there is often a brief onboarding process or learning curve, it’s not steep because these products … Read more

Many early-stage companies rely on spreadsheets and ad-hoc dashboards to run mission-critical workflows. These tools can take a surprisingly far. But as internal operations scale and complexity increases, their fragility of becomes apparent. Missed updates, untraceable decisions, and fractured workflows are some common consequences of relying on rapidly assembled systems. This article explores how to … Read more