Mondays might not be your favorite day of the week, but the good news is that we’re all in this together ladies and gentlemen. As purveyors of prime Grade A web content, the SolidSmack crew has done some of the heavy-lifting to make sure you get your Mondays started on the right track.
Welcome to The Monday List.
Every Monday, we link you up with some of the most insightful, informative, and socially-relevant stories to keep tabbed, bookmarked, reading listed, pocketed, or what have you to get your week started on the right foot. Be sure to check in each week for a new crop of freshly sprouted words curated straight from the source of your favorite homegrown ‘Smack.
What We’re Reading This Week:
The Smartphone Revolution Was the Android Revolution
Although Apple sparked the modern smartphone revolution, Android was the essential ingredient that made the devices ubiquitous.
You Should Use a Private Email Server. Google Makes It Hard
Helm offers a $500 way to get off Gmail forever, as long as you bug your loved ones to check their spam folders.
The Math Equation That Tried to Stump the Internet
Sometimes BODMAS is just PEMDAS by another name. And no, the answer is not 100.
The $60 Gadget That’s Changing Electronic Music
The Swedish company Teenage Engineering has won over kids — and professionals — with a revolutionary idea for a synthesizer: Make it simple.
All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people
As I focus on becoming a better manager of engineers, I have been reflecting more and more on the advice that produced a 10X boost in my abilities at that same stage. More often than not the best advice, the things that stuck with me, came from people who had no background at all in software.
Why Technology’s Early Adopters Are Opting Out
There was always a financial cost to early adoption. Today, there’s a potential privacy cost, too.
