Hi,

I can help you with digital things, so you can focus on doing your job instead of wasting time dealing with unnecessarily sophisticated digital tools.

I am a kind of “system administrator” AND I’ve also spent a number of years helping businesses using digital tools to find new clients, grow revenue, etc. Some people call this “growth”⁷ or product marketing.

So, in other words, my job is to take care of the digital tools you need to do your work - so you can focus:

I keep things simple, I document what I do, and I use freely distributed software.

Once I’ve set things up, you can call me back if you need help, or you can hire someone else (or I can train your people).

My value proposition is that there is no vendor lock-in⁸; you are free to go, anytime.

Postscriptum: I am in the process of publishing some documentation for others to replicate this agency model.

This webpage is made using Markdown, Pandoc, Bash, HTML, 6 lines of CSS and is hosted on a virtual machine running the free GNU/Linux distribution Trisquel¹⁶ along with Nginx, on a shared server.

Data collection policy¹⁷: logs are kept for four weeks; only looked at if there is an issue. No analytics, cookies or trackers are used on this website.

In other words, if your organisation is blind to the epistemic effect of technological usage↩︎
In other words, if your organisation can’t see that blockchain and the centralised hierarchically organised entity are oxymorons↩︎
In other words, if your organisation don’t know the adage “use old rule”, or is unfamiliar with the Lindy Effect↩︎
In other words, if your organisation is blind to solutionism (i.e. jumping at the implementation of “solutions” when problems have not yet been identified), or the concept of technological debt (i.e. more technologies leads to more complexity and eventually more problems), or if your organisation is blind to the idea of via negativa; more commonly known as “less is more”↩︎
if your organisation can’t see that what matters is to maintain the possibility to create what yet does not exist, (the improbable), but that your organisation think that they should be looking at data (what is already computed, thus belongs to the sphere of events that are probable) to make decision, how can they think “outside the box”? Will sticking to data-driven decision undermine the possibility for your organisation to create what yet does not exist? - thinking of AI - one question for the ones thinking that AI can help them create what does not exist: can AI (i.e. computers) generate (compute) what is yet not computed? Isn’t this question an oxymoron?↩︎
In other words, if your organisation can’t distinguish between the meanings of the words adopt and adapt, and the importance of distinguishing between the two↩︎
But what is the point of growing revenue if it means that we have to “run faster” to maintain the same level of income? In other words, what’s the point of growing revenue if your Return on Investment (ROI) is dwindling? I prefer to think of building businesses which ROI increases over time - meaning that one does not have to “run faster” to grow revenues. Digital tools I call digital glebes cause dwindling ROIs↩︎
From Wikipedia: “vendor lock-in, also known as proprietary lock-in or customer lock-in, makes a customer dependent on a vendor for products, unable to use another vendor without substantial switching costs.”↩︎
for example see https://plaintext.website (we can put photos etc)↩︎
Most digital technologies agencies nudge their clients to adopt tools provided by technofeudalists. By doing so, agencies prompt their clients to build their businesses or practices on the glebe (a territory where their agency is undermined). I don’t. I use software which are not tethered to any digital glebes or vendors. I use software which usage is free as in unrestricted, and which will remain freely distributed (i.e. copyleft-licensed).↩︎
See Free does not mean gratis: lexical clarifications towards digital literacy↩︎
Software which can’t become proprietary; conversely, free software which is non-copyleft licensed can become proprietary.↩︎
The sphere of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) consumes as much energy as the aviation industry; source: KDE talk at CCC.↩︎
See Use old programmes↩︎
See Digital accessibility & inclusivity↩︎
FAQ: Ubuntu and Debian GNU/Linux are both composed of binary blobs, i.e. proprietary programmes.↩︎
There is no “privacy policy”, only Data Collection Policies.↩︎