{"id":15666,"date":"2012-02-05T11:40:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T18:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=15666"},"modified":"2012-02-05T12:01:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T19:01:03","slug":"building-the-perfect-beast-a-round-up-of-my-recent-technology-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15666\/building-the-perfect-beast-a-round-up-of-my-recent-technology-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Building the perfect beast: A round-up of my recent technology posts."},"content":{"rendered":"

Caveat lector!<\/em> The words you are about to read are unvetted, unhomogenized and unlicensed. One of my longer-term projects is to write essays on reasons why you should dismiss the things I have to say. I’ve only done two so far: You should dismiss me because I don’t care if you do<\/a> and because I can see right through you<\/a>. There are zillions more reasons, whether I get to them or not, but the one that matters most, in this context, is this one:<\/p>\n

I am completely without credentials.<\/p>\n

That’s a statement I could quibble with, but I don’t want to. There is no limit to the caviling to be found on that road, and I don’t care, anyway. I am writing about tools that could and should exist, and if you want to dismiss what I have to say because I don’t fit your profile of a nerd — so much the worse for you. The world is awash in a billion blends of stupid, and credentialism is hardly the worst of the bunch. Looking outside yourself for your intellectual self-defense is the parent of that error, though, and that one is deadly.<\/p>\n

Whatever. I think these ideas are fun. I’m looking at a much bigger picture, philosophically, but the technology I’m talking about here is a way of effecting those larger ideas in everyday life. You might plead for better organization — and, truly, there is a book scattered around in this stuff — but I believe reading these essays will repay your effort.<\/p>\n

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There’s more. Here are the essays I wrote about the iPad, at the time of its introduction. Entries #2 and #8 are the best of the bunch, in my opinion.<\/p>\n

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That’s a lot of reading, I know, but what else are you going to do with your time — watch football?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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