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I love being able to analyze current trends in the market and do deep dives into what they mean for the rest of the industry. It’s here you’ll find my latest thinking behind Digital Transformation topics as well as other areas I’m most passionate about.

Blockchain and Netflix: Exploring Disruption and Opportunities

This article discusses the potential impact of blockchain technology on Netflix's larger strategy, analyzing various applications and potential disruptions. The author explores how accepting cryptocurrency payments could broaden Netflix's customer base and partnering with service providers like Coinbase. Additionally, they examine the possibility of using blockchain for advertising cryptocurrency and the potential challenges and benefits of putting video streaming on a decentralized blockchain network. The article emphasizes the importance for Netflix to consider blockchain technology and optimize their systems to compete in a decentralized streaming landscape.

Unleashing the Power of Intangible Assets: The Rise of Intangible Technologies

In this article, I explore the emergence of Intangible Technologies as a solution to the challenge of optimizing intangible assets in organizations. The article highlights the need for a paradigm shift and introduces Intangible.Tech as a means to unlock the hidden potential of our digital world.

Agile, Digital Transformation

Agile and Burnout: The Challenge of Modernization

As companies are increasingly adopting agility as key components of their strategies, are you helping those at the front lines of adoption? Change agents face the daunting challenge of having to bridge old school and new alike. Are you supporting them properly and most importantly are you listening to them?

Personal

Trauma Fueled My Ambitions and Left Me Burnt Out: Learning to Heal

I’ve always had a super human work ethic. No challenge whether corporate or personal seemed too great to tackle. Digging deeper into myself I could muster the strength for anything I would set my mind to. At what cost, though, did this work ethic start to meander into too much. After burning myself out far too many times I’ve used this past year to dig into my drivers and take a look at the factors that have caused it.

Blockchain

Spreading Prosperity is as Easy as Code Sharing; No Funding Required

The best aspect of this entire system is that it will be entirely built upon code. Everything from taxes (fees) to businesses running their bookkeeping will be components of the overall larger system. This means once built for one country, it can be shared to others to build the same system for themselves.

Blockchain

CBDCs & Currency Pricing

This is an ongoing series on how blockchain is set to disrupt how our global economies work and operate. Central Bank Digital Currencies will be both vital and paramount for the future of our connected economy. How they work and how currencies fluctuate will become automated.

Blockchain

How Intangibles Will Be Better Managed

This is an ongoing series of articles on how blockchain technology is set to radically disrupt our economic system. Intangibles previously have only been estimates within businesses, however, as assets can now be measured for their throughput ongoing, intangibles now become clearer than ever before.

Blockchain

Unlocking and Harnessing Intangible Assets

This is part of an ongoing series examining the economic possibilities of switching into a blockchain based system. Most exciting, today’s article dives into how moving to a high transactional based system of accounting enables previously unseen elements of business to now have a more tangible effect on business.

Blockchain

Public Companies and Tangible Assets (NFT’s)

This is an ongoing series highlighting how blockchain is set to disrupt how our global economy works and operates. Building off previous articles, this section dives into how public companies will differ from private while also tackling accounting standards between the two.

Blockchain

Business Share Prices and Market Fundamentals Flip

This is an ongoing series of how blockchain has the potential to disrupt our entire economic system. Instead of forcing old ways of markets onto these new systems, what would happen if the system instead changed to embrace their new ways of working. Today’s article theorizes how the valuing of companies would change.

Blockchain

Fraud Prevention & Physical Credit Cards Become Optional

This is is an ongoing series highlighting how blockchain is set to radically disrupt our economy and business processes. Please check out previous articles as they each build upon each other.

Blockchain

Crediting Economic Levers & Rewarding Positive Action

This is part of a continuing series diving deep into the far ranging topic around blockchains introduction to our economic system. As market dynamics shift, so to does the governments use of levers to control the economy. This article highlights what changes in addition to how positive credit can be further incentivized.

Blockchain

DeFi & Credit in Blockchain

This is the third part of a series of articles looking at the future of blockchain and its effects on the larger economy. DeFi is a disruptive utilization of blockchain technology providing a host of new economic capability. Although theoretical, you can start architecting how other facets of the economy can be made to work within the benefits it provides.

Blockchain

Wallets & Digital IDs: The New Bedrock for Financial Services

This is the second part of a series on blockchain and how it has the potential to radically transform both business and the economy.

Blockchain

Blockchain’s Future: How it Differs and the Viewpoint Needed for Success

This is the first part of a series of articles diving deep into how blockchain has the potential to drastically change the economy for the better. By leveraging a statistical, connected viewpoint of the world you can begin to see not only how technologies can help advance us but also iterate towards the ultimate vision.

Hardware, Review

OnePlus 8T Review: 2020’s Best High End Android Phone

Android phones have come a long way since my first device; an HTC Droid Incredible which was Verizon’s carrier branded edition of the famed Google Nexus One. Featuring the first ever mobile processor to breach the 1Ghz mark and vast developer support made this an absolute delight to learn the inner workings of Google’s operating system.

Hardware

Audio Innovation & IoT; My Audiophile Journey

Good audio is dependent more than ever on software and its integration with hardware. Due to the heavy dependencies of one and the other, audio has been a great way for me to deeply understand its nuances and understand its importance in the realm of IoT (Internet of Things) in addition to data engineering across the audio spectrum.

Product Thinking, Digital Transformation

Tesla’s Rise in Value & What it Showcases

Instead of going to suppliers for innovation and product development, Tesla brought development in-house. Tesla's process of modern product thinking has allowed them to be a major player in the automotive industry while still having a fraction of the resources of a legacy automaker.

Digital Transformation

Death of the App, Hello Services

Apple is venturing into the next age of digital by offering service-based products that can only be experienced on their native platforms. This is a strategic move to keep users locked into their ecosystem while encouraging them to use Apple services through frictionless design.

Hardware

Qualcomm Finally Speaks – Are Better Wearables on the Horizon?

Are hardware manufacturers ever going to release better performing wearables? Qualcomm seems to be holding up the industry.

Hardware

AMD’s Surge, Intel’s Scramble and Custom Hardware

AMD's new products are quickly catching up to Intel's. Intel doesn't seem to have an answer to them. Let's dive in to how this dynamic will play out.

Gaming

Google’s Gaming Platform – Why It Makes Sense and Why They Need to Be First

Google's rumored gaming platform may not be the first of its kind but it makes sense. They need to beat Microsoft to the punch. Let's analyze what it might mean.

Hardware

The Future of the Automobile Is Living Inside the Palm of Your Hand

Automakers are turning to technology companies to provide the brains behind the dash for features such as auto pilot, braking, and parking. Mobile hardware has gotten to the point we’re putting near super computing power of the last decade behind the dash of your car.

Hardware

The Definitive iPhone 8 & X Guide

The new iPhones are the most powerful phones on the market, with a new A11 processor and OLED screens. However, the new iPhone X is in short supply and may not be available until after Christmas.

Employees, Not Hackers Are Cause For Cyber Exploits

Another day, another cyber attack as Deloitte has now been identified as having their data breached. As these attacks become more commonplace it’s important to ensure that your employees are kept aware of consequences but also kept in the loop of knowledge about what they can and cannot do.

Hardware

Performance Analysis: iOS 11 on the iPhone 5S

Ars Technica dives into the performance effects of installing iOS on the oldest Apple device receiving the update, the iPhone 5S. In short, thanks to the device’s 64 bit processor it was not phased nearly as much as older generations of iPhones. However, it still shows noticeable lag compared to iOS 10.

Hardware

The Importance of Technology Consulting…And Don’t Buy Windows Phones

With few developers knowing a platform, they’re going to cost more to develop for your platform. Now, you not only have higher initial development costs but you are now launching an outdated application that only select developers will know how to operate creating increased running costs and higher threats of cyber breaches running older technology.

Indiana’s Fight Against Opioid Abuse – Big Data

Usually I can expect bad news when hearing about the opioid crisis in my home state. However, I was very pleasantly surprised to find out that we’re leading the charge with not conservative legislation but data analytics.