Tuesday, June 30, 2026

TUESDAY — TECHNOLOGY & WORK

“I have often been credited in the media with inventing the webcam.”

— Quentin Stafford-Fraser

In 1991, a few Cambridge researchers tired of trekking to an empty coffee pot so they aimed a spare camera at it: the world’s first webcam, born of pure laziness and now woven into every video call you take. The breakthrough was not a grand vision. It was a trivial annoyance nobody thought was worth solving… which is often where your most useful opportunities lie. To learn more, Check out the article The world’s first webcam was set up by caffeine-starved computer scientists to watch a coffee pot.

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Stay safe. Stay healthy. Be strong. Lead well.

Chad