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The Future of Feeling: Building Empathy in a Tech-Obsessed World

By Scott J. Pearson | February 15, 2020February 15, 2020 by Scott J. Pearson

Technology – especially social media – has made our communication more accessible over the last ten years. But has it enhanced the quality of our conversation? In this book, Phillips contends that empathy has lost out in the transition to digital technology. She cites events like the 2016 US election as proof of how we are unable to have a civilized conversation in the digital world. Thus far (in the first couple chapters in the…

Review: The DevOps Handbook

By Scott J. Pearson | July 28, 2019July 28, 2019 by Scott J. Pearson

DevOps is a movement about the management of computer programmers. It basically says that Development (coding) and Operations (deployment and maintenance) should communicate more and better. Such workability allows for better error detection, swifter deployment of code, etc. Interestingly, I’ve worked mainly in research environments where I’ve been in charge of both Development and Operations at the same time. I worked in a corporation with separate Dev and Ops for a few years – and…