Articles

Today I mused on Pseudo-Profound Bullshit. https://robert.winter.ink/pseudo-profound-bullshit/

Today I had a darker musing, about Power and Control: Tech Billionaires in Politics Don't worry about the populist, worry about what comes after them. And what is coming seems clear: Billionaires o...

I wrote an article about my participation in #100DaysToOffload I began the challenge hoping it would improve my journaling habits and ability to write short form pieces. Sprint research as I like t...

I wrote an article: Tool Time Consider that a UI should assume the user doesn’t have a high level of software experience, nor is willing to learn how to use the command line to undertake some level...

I wrote an article: Hail, Lobster! The moment when left leaning popular culture overreached itself and instead of fascist shaming a once obscure academic into silence, brought back into popular use...

I wrote an article: The New Cathedral Door Does it truly safeguard that which is dangerous and true while restricting that which is dangerous and false, and does it arrive at this determination thr...

I wrote an article: A Peer’s Tube Winter Ink PeerTube will allow for the documenting and preservation of videos to which I can link in my ongoing speculations about life and art. Links, and the con...

I wrote an article: Life is Long, Access is Short If not accidentally lost, your data can vanish in other ways: the community project shutters, a company goes under, or the subset of services you u...

I wrote an article about My Copy of The Times When we cut each other off from access to knowledge, we may preserve our copyright, but we run the risk of endangering our copy's posterity.

I wrote an article about the Fourth Way – Living in Harmony with our Online Presence Instead of these three paths, the Fourth Way seeks to provide an alternative in which a student can seek to find...

I wrote an article about... Polywork, A New Professional Network I have often thought that an individual is far more than their job title or pay scale. Which means that even in a professional netwo...

I wrote a blog post: Confessions of a Platform Junkie Having perused and discarded a number of options (Medium, Tumblr, Squarespace and Jekyll), I am now caught between the devil and the deep blue ...

I wrote a blog post about the five stages of autonomy. At this stage, employees, whether remote or in an office, enjoy true autonomy. The Nirvana Mullenweg and Co. are in search of for their busine...

I wrote a blog article: A Change Management Primer. Knowing this only shifts the problem from 'how' to 'when'. In other words, at what speed should the change management take place?

I wrote about the notion of parliamentary privilege. Sidestepping Trump's wounded pose and Twitter's egregious claim of the moral high ground and an interesting question about politics and speech e...

I wrote about dead certainties. The key is to avoid reading events falsely, which inevitably leads to politics shaping what we think is true. https://robert.winter.ink/dead-certainties/

I mused on the question, is code is speech? Something to ponder when next your private moments are leveraged to improve a marketing algorithm. https://robert.winter.ink/code-is-speech/

I wrote about ambient privacy, a notion which has become a problematic concept as while I might take steps to secure my personal spaces, I can’t control the public spaces into which I must venture ...