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My signed copy of Robert Scoble and Shel Israel's The Fourth Transformation.

The premise: We've had three interface transformations - text (1970s), GUI (1984), touch (2007). The fourth is AR glasses with AI. Ten years from now, the smartphone won't be the center of your digital life. Glasses will.

I backed the Oculus Rift in 2012. Got Glass in 2014. Walked around Yarkon Park with it during morning stroller walks with my son. Awkward. Not very useful. The Oculus sits mostly unused - hard to disconnect from the surroundings, from what's going on at home, even for games.

Still believe in the trajectory. When the form factor is regular glasses, it'll work. Then contact lenses. Then direct brain interface.

The watch does have something of a checkered past. In the mid-1990s, the F-91W became briefly notorious as "the terrorist watch." Extremists in Pakistan and the Philippines learned how to use the F-91W as a timer for improvised explosive devices.

• IEEE Spectrum - The Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame: Casio F-91W Wristwatch

Breakfast of champions

AliExpress: "Silicone Fried Egg Mould Shaper Skull"

Someone turned this ATM into a "Bitcoin ATM" with a sticker. Adoption level: creative.

I run am responsible for a fleet of servers, databases, critical production systems.

When everything works, nobody knows you exist. No one counts the disasters you prevented. The monitoring you built. The 3am alerts you caught before they became outages.

But when something breaks...

Loved this thread on Reddit: "IT workers of reddit, what is the most enraging and idiotic thing a non-techie has told you?"

• Web Comic by Li-Anne Arabella Dias. Can relate.

A little rain and the stock ticker outside of the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange goes crazy...
Remind me why markets need buildings?