Quite frequently, someone asks me, “Brian, what do you recommend I use for ________?” Behold, (most of) those things that I recommend appear below, in one place for your review. There is something here for everyone including productivity tools, web hosts, social media tools, online backup options, accounting programs, etc., that I have personally used […]
1Check your privacy settings on your social networks (Insiders Tip: Your privacy settings on Facebook are only as good as your friends). 2Don’t re-use usernames on the web. 3Don’t ever use your real telephone number when communicating with someone on the web. Instead, use something like Burner or Hushed. 4Use shitty passwords at your own […]
“How can I become a private investigator?” I’ve been asked that question literally hundreds of time over the past several years. The truth is that I never had a great answer. Actually, I take that back. I had a decent idea, but it was nothing that I could boil down into a few sentences. So […]
Yesterday, Reuters published an article that caught my eye. It was about a “private investigator” hired by Uber who “fraudulently sought information about its opponents in an antitrust case.” In actuality, it was the New York Post’s salacious headline that really caught my eye: “Judge Probes Whether Uber’s Private Eye Lied to Dig up Dirt.” […]
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the future. Not because I am going anywhere, but because technology is changing everything around us. It’s changed the way we shop (I am an online shopping addict), the way we consume information (e-books, blogs, podcasts, etc.) and the way that we make decisions (social media, online reviews) […]
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