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The Smart Home Has a Maintenance Department. It Is You.

Connected homes promised convenience, but quietly moved upkeep, troubleshooting, and risk onto the people living inside them.

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Connected homes promised convenience, but quietly moved upkeep, troubleshooting, and risk onto the people living inside them.

Jun 21 · 5 min read

Modern cars increasingly behave less like possessions and more like licensed software with wheels attached.

Jun 19 · 5 min read

Amazon’s color Kindle is useful, restrained, and occasionally underwhelming in exactly the right ways.

Jun 13 · 5 min read

Return-to-office mandates are less about productivity than about restoring managerial legibility.

Jun 12 · 5 min read

We've traded ownership for access, and now we're surprised when companies change the deal.

Jun 11 · 5 min read

Electrifying homes sounds simple until the bottleneck turns out to be the panel, the transformer, and the waiting list.

Jun 10 · 5 min read

Banking is cheaper than ever for people with money, and strangely expensive for people without much of it.

Jun 9 · 5 min read

Undersea cables, data borders, and latency are turning the cloud back into something stubbornly physical.

Jun 8 · 5 min read

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