The Update: Disrupt, Dropping Tracking, and Coffee

Keeping an active internal discussion about the things that interest us at Geocene builds trust and makes it easier to have conversations about harder topics. I summarize our most interesting internal discussions for this newsletter so that you can be a part of our community, too. Please hit respond and type what is on your mind. I want to hear your thoughts!

• We’re going to TechCrunch Disrupt. Dean and I will walk the floor and check on the new hotness that startup founders are cooking up. Let us know if you want to meet up there or just come to Tears and Beers in September. That one will be September 21st, the last day of the conference.
   
• We made some significant changes to our website. We started from the realization that SEO, user tracking, fancy javascript, and such were utterly useless for us. We operate in a high-trust space—nobody is hiring engineering consultants impulsively. We want people visiting our website to see that we are who we say we are, and the new site is focused on doing that.
   
• Lots of internal chatter this month about the tech world, so I’ll cram the news in one bullet: Qualcomm started a RISC-V joint venture, Zoom required workers to come back to the office (ha!), nuclear fusion and room temp superconductors had new breakthroughs but are still 20 years away and/or unlikely, and some rough rules on the “right way” to drink coffee.

Engin Akyurt’s stock photo of a cappuccino from Pixabay.