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38 Lessons Learned From Starting & Growing A Weekly Newsletter
By Doug Antin No story, just the lessons, because time is money. Photo by Maxim Ilyahov on Unsplash I've published a niche newsletter on self-sovereignty and the digital transformation every week for the past 2 years. Here's 38 lessons I learned from publishing over 60 issues.
All I Want for Christmas Is a 5G Connection.
Said the little girl to her Granddad! “All I want for Christmas is a 5G Connection”, said the 5-year-old to her Granddad. “Why?” came the gruff reply. “So I can download Baby Shark faster,” she said. “You’re kidding me, right?” Granddad snorted, relaxing in a recliner while finishing off a gin martini and puffing a fine cigar. “Granddad! You don’t understand. Our home WiFi is bad in the afternoon, and my tablet slows down.
The Internet is Multilingual But You Need To Learn Mandarin
Geopolitics and the global adoption of the internet are creating an East vs West language divide. Photo by Cherry Lin on Unsplash The internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. — Bill Gates. The language of the internet has shifted from predominantly English to multilingual. But the internet seemingly reinforces a few main languages, putting the majority of others at risk of exclusion.
Trusting Strangers on the Internet: How to Build Trust With an Audience
The internet is a force multiplier. Your digital future depends on using these new ways to establish trust with large audiences. Photo by Joshua Hoehne on Unsplash The internet is a force multiplier. A person can build a lifestyle and reputation at previously unattainable scales. If used effectively, the internet can change your life. Whether selling to an employer, a customer or writing for a specific audience, how we communicate value to strangers is changing.
How Can a Treadmill Create a More Immersive VR?
As in Ready Player One, omnidirectional treadmills remove physical constraints and allow users to explore infinite spaces. Photo by Stéphane Bernard on Unsplash I’ve never met a skeptic of VR who has tried it. — Tim Sweeney At the moment, Virtual Reality is known more for its fantastical representation in movies and books than for its real-world utility.
How to Build an Audience Using a Lean Startup Strategy
“Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop is at the core of the Lean Startup model.” — Eric Reis, The Lean Startup Many writers are like entrepreneurs. They think success happens overnight with a fully designed masterpiece. But like entrepreneurs, most writers must pivot to find success. This was true of my experience. It took me a long time until I learned to test my ideas first before committing time and energy to the winners.
How Avatars Support a Private and Unique Metaverse
The internet is a digital universe built on User-Generated Content (UGC) and we use avatars to express and protect our identities What is an avatar? Your first thought may be of the 2009 movie Avatar, where the main character’s mind digitally inhabits an alien body. Or maybe you think of it as a digital representation of a person. A highly customizable video game persona or picture you can use to identify yourself.
8 Interesting Ideas that Will Influence the Digital Future
#8 Emergence Theory — complex systems like the Metaverse are created as unique technologies converge. I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away… it was already here. I just wasn’t aware of it yet. — Bruce Sterling We can’t truly know the future. It’s not possible. But we can study human nature, world history, and interesting facts of life to gain an understanding of how the world works.
The Technology of the Metaverse, It’s Not Just VR
The Metaverse isn’t simply a space you inhabit. It’s more like a digital parallel universe and VR is one of its many access points. As of April 2020, there are 4.5 billion people with internet access and 4.2 billion of those people are mobile internet users. That means, over half the world's population is interacting with the Metaverse on a daily basis. Most don’t even know it. The Metaverse is an infinitely large, persistent, digital, and interactive information space.
Our Future Is in the Virtual World’s Metaverse, Here’s What You Need to Know
Metaverse Like Ready Player One and The Matrix, your reality will only be limited by your imagination. No one can avoid the technology convergence that is underway. In the near future, our world, and how we interact with it will be fundamentally different. Like Ready Player One’s Oasis, who you are in the physical world will not be representative of who you can be in the virtual world. The things you will be able to do and experience will be limited only by your imagination.
Using Telehealth to Prevent Hospital System Crash and Maximize Effective Resources
This document describes an emergency operational strategy that leverages telehealth technology and extensive analytics to enable system-level operational design and execution that could allow the state to manage the coming COVID-19 outbreak, with minimal fatalities and while preserving the sustainable operation of state health systems. The plan includes imperatives that, if not followed, create a very high risk of following the path of countries like Italy.
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