For a long time, I was allowing myself to use the free services of different companies. I was of the view that “Hey, it’s free, what is the worst that could happen?”. I couldn’t have been stupider. Technology companies are the only ones apart from drug peddlars that refer to their customers as ‘users’. As […]
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Retaining Control in Business
When my business partner in the past was hesitant to use technology that locked us into a lengthy contract or created situations of vendor lock-in I thought he was being paranoid. After all, these companies were the biggest and best in the world at what they did and they were offering us all these services […]