August 2011
2 posts
douchebags drove the evolution of mobile networks
This is why you’re gonna buy my book:
In particular, it was - to put it frankly, the douchebags of the world - Wall Street Bankers in New York, politicans in Washington, and the entertainment magnates of Hollywood whose incessant, infantile need for constant communication pushed the capacity of analog cellular networks to their limits.
So much for shitty first drafts. :)
Sao Paulo is Bizarro Seoul
Something about Sao Paulo felt so familiar, like I’d been there before. The physical landscape is almost identical to Seoul - 80s/90s/00s high rise and malls interspersed with 60s/70s/80s concrete slab factories, shantytowns and anonymous housing blocks.
But something felt so different - think about it:
they are on opposite sides of the globe, almost 180 degrees of longitude and latitude...