These last few weeks I have had reason to think about a couple of services that I use and have come to love over the years, even depend on, yet they are pretty much invisible in the sense that they are so totally integrated into other apps and services that some, at least I, sometimes forget about them…until they break down, or until my access to them is blocked.
In 2009 I read an excellent article in Wired where journalist Evan Ratliff tried to “vanish” and stay hidden for a month. In case you haven’t read it I really recommend you do, you can find the article over here. In short he offered $5.000 of his own money to whoever found him within a month. To make it a little bit more difficult he had to do certain things at given times, to give his followers an opportunity to catch up, and his office let out clues now and then of his whereabouts and/or actions.
It was a good read indeed and I kept it in my head for quite some time afterwards, both regarding the learnings of how Social Media was used to find and/or track someone, but also I started asking myself what “traces” I leave behind from my online activities…
As you quite possibly know (as you are reading this) I join lots of new services that pop up. Almost all of them, as I come by them, and if they let me in (which can be tricky enough at times). The reasons for this varies of course, but one of the main things is that when colleagues and/or clients ask me if I have heard of a particular service I prefer to have first-hand knowledge of it.
lego star wars by Dekuwa I set out to do 4-5 Career Tips, and we have now reached the fifth one, after having gone through the following: Plan your day on your way in to work Complete one thing every…
In the Career Tip Feature I am doing right now we have reached tip #4, after having gone through the following ones so far:
Plan your day on your way in to work
Complete one thing every day
Learn (at least) one new thing every day
This fourth one is a bit trickier to formulate in a clatchy short sentence, but it goes something like this
