Do I Talk Too Much?

One day during a coaching session, an executive asked me, “How do I know if I’m talking too much?” The question had emerged from the results of confidential interviews I had conducted at the executive’s request.  I had created a document which included de-identified “themes” which emerged during my interaction with his colleagues. One tiny…

BIO and Vaccine Manufacturers Group Sign on to Berlin Declaration on Vaccine Access

Two major trade organizations representing global vaccine manufacturers are officially backing a proposal submitted to the G20 and G7 countries in July that they claim offers practical solutions for future pandemics to avoid the inequities that have been highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Berlin Declaration was proposed in July 2022 by the International Federation…

Lost something? Search through 91.7 million files from the ’80s, ’90s, and 2000s

Enlarge / Search through millions of vintage files with Discmaster. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Today, tech archivist Jason Scott announced a new website called Discmaster that lets anyone search through 91.7 million vintage computer files pulled from CD-ROM releases and floppy disks. The files include images, text documents, music, games, shareware, videos, and…

Microsoft’s “Project Volterra” becomes an Arm-powered mini PC with 32GB of RAM

Enlarge (credit: Microsoft) Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that it would be releasing new hardware to encourage more developers to start using and supporting the Arm version of Windows. Dubbed “Project Volterra,” all we knew about it at the time was that it would use an unnamed Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and NVMe-based storage, that it…