Technology is an adventure. If you would’ve told me nine years ago, when I first moved to Boulder, that I would one day be working in the tech field and even know a few lines of code, I would’ve asked for some of what you were smoking. You know, because it’s Boulder.
The fact that I’ve worked as tech support for a web conferencing company as well as working at not one, but two, early-stage tech startups is absolutely amazing. I was never the one into computers. And look at me now.
For the most part, I consider myself mostly self-taught when it comes to tech. I’m not afraid to click buttons and figure out how programs work through trial and error. This isn’t always a good thing but I learn from my mistakes.
Beer helps.
The daily adventure challenged me to learn something new.
I read today about MyPermissions.org, a service that allows you to see all the apps that have access to your different social media accounts, and decided that I would learn about revoking permission. FB was the surprising winner with how many apps I had granted access to my information. Some of them aren’t around anymore (Social Thing) and some of them I definitely don’t use anymore (Dopplr).
It felt good to revoke permission. An unsubscribe from nonsense and a clean slate, online anyway, for the New Year. I learned about taking the power of my personal information back and I liked it.
The more you know…
