There are many ways to ruin your day. Forgetting your anniversary. Discovering your favorite show has been canceled. Finding out that the cookies you’ve been saving for a special occasion have mysteriously disappeared. And then there’s confiding in artificial intelligence and having your diary entries forwarded to the […]
There’s a hotel trend that started quietly a few years ago, like all bad ideas do. At first it showed up as a “modern design choice.” Then a “European vibe.” Then suddenly you’re standing in a hotel room brushing your teeth while your travel companion makes direct eye […]
There’s a fine line between maintaining your privacy and being pushed to a point where you feel you have no choice but to share deeply personal things. We’re told time and again that we don’t owe anyone our private stories—be it a medical condition, a death, or anything […]
Have you ever had surgery? What for? Yes, I have had surgery. In fact, if I tally it up, I’ve had three. Although, I feel like I’m forgetting one. And, if I am, so be it Two were for a recurring issue, and a brand-new problem popped up […]
Must seem strange what I am about to say considering I blog about all sorts of random life events everyday. Here I go. Some things you just have to keep private. There’s a commercial (for which product I cannot recall), but it has people blurting out very personal […]
Everything these days seems to be either about personalization or psychometric profiling. I suppose that by now you have heard about the little problem that Facebook has been having the past few weeks. Apparently, according to the news media companies, voter-profiling company Cambridge Analytica harvested private data […]
