There's been an uproar online since Netflix's plans to block "password sharing" leaked. And it feels pretty justified. In an attempt to make shareholders happy with their plateauing growth, Netflix has decided to squeeze more out of the users it already has. First came the ad tier that's slightly cheaper
Or princesses and princes for that matter Just as there are no good billionaires. You can't be a good person and a monarch. You can't believe in the divine right of your bloodline to rule, and be a good person. Any good person in that position would eventually realise that
Every few years some new trend comes along and promises to reshape the tech industry and wider world. It usually starts in niche spaces, then a few startups, then the tech giants join, and pretty soon everyone is talking about it. It's in the news, on late night shows, celebrities
James Gunn's The Suicide Squad was released this past weekend to disappointing box office results of just $26.5 million in the US. There are a lot of mitigating factors for this though. The pandemic, of course, the surge in new cases due to the Delta variant and the unvaccinated,
In just the past few weeks we've seen devastating flooding in Europe and China. And once again the climate crisis has taken the spotlight in the global consciousness. Every month we're faced with more examples that the effects of climate change are already here. It's not a distant threat anymore
No one wants to be the bad guy. When narratives begin to shift and the once good guys are labelled as bad it's not surprising they fight back. They'll point to criticisms as exaggerations. Their faults as misunderstandings. Today's freshly ordained bad guys are the investors and CEOs of Silicon
A few local product launches reminded me of this phrase. Did I write an article about it? Turns out it was still in my drafts years later. But it seems as relevant a topic as ever. Back in 2015-16 there seemed to be some momentum in Trinidad's startup space. There
A few months ago I began rewatching Battlestar Galactica, the Ron Moore version, for the first time since the show originally ended. 11 years had faded a lot of my memories of it. I wondered if it held up. If the ending would disappoint me more than it did. If
When you're just getting started building your own projects marketing seems like a daunting task, especially if your background is in development. You spend some time learning what you can about marketing but a lot of advice relies on utilising your "network". That assumes you have a network. If you're
I finished The Last of Us Part 2 recently and I've been thinking about ever since. There was a mixed reaction to the game when it released. Some praised it as a work of art while some hated it. I went into the game expecting something a bit disappointing. But
There seems to be a fundamental misconception of why people are enjoying Quibi's demise. Startup vets seem to believe it's making fun of people who took a big swing and failed. > The glee about Quibi's failure seems to me misguided. Startups are hard. There's no honor in applauding when they
Video games have always gotten a bad representation in the wider media. It was first viewed as just kids in an arcade, then sweaty guys in their parents' basements, and now streamers reacting for their audiences. There's some truth in those representations at the time they were in vogue but