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“Hot Plasma” is the Latest in E-Security Before I begin telling you about the most sophisticated new cyberthreat your organization will face in 2022 -- which by the way has a very dull name -- I thought I’d at least try and open with something that is more uplifting: Hot Plasma to Re-Invent E-Security (Environmental Security, that is). This good news is that we’ve had a breakthrough in Hot Plasma which could soon (in the next decade) power a world of electric [...]

Use the Force, Nod Your Head We’ve got another tip for mastering the art of remote communications this week, and if you’re a Star Wars fan, you’re in luck. This article is part of a multi-part series on the psychology of remote communications, as many/most of us are still working remotely. I want to reiterate that we have established a baseline over the last couple years (albeit anecdotal) that tells us these tips have helped a lot of our customers and friends. And [...]

Psychology of Remote Communications We’re continuing our series on the psychology of remote communications this week, as many/most of us are still working remotely with the persistence of this latest covid variant. In addition, many of our readers have indicated that these tips have been very helpful in fostering better work communications over the last year and a half. This has reminded the scientist in me that we now have a baseline (albeit anecdotal) that these tips actually work! [...]

Déjà Vu All Over Again Are you getting the strange feeling like you’ve been here before? Like you’ve experienced exactly what’s happening now a year or maybe two years ago? If you’re a fan of The Matrix movie franchise, you’ll know that déjà vu is actually a glitch in the computer program that is feeding us our idea of reality. The ‘real’ reality (spoiler alert) is that we lost a war with intelligent machines we created who now use us humans as their batter [...]

Looking Back at Our Most Popular Articles of 2021 With 2021 now fully behind us, I thought I’d take you through some of the most popular and shared content Tech Essentials produced. It was obviously a busy year for us and the world at large. The year began with a surge in COVID cases and ended with…a surge in COVID cases. Return to office (RTO) plans were thrown back into disarray, thus necessitating the continued need for WFH products like RMail [...]