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Note-Taking Apps Keep Solving the Wrong Problem

Every year brings a new tool with better linking, better search, and better structure. The bottleneck was never storage. It was retrieval intent.

Your Photos Know More Than You Do

Every image you take carries a small dossier. Most of it is useful, some of it is surprising, and almost none of it is visible before you share.

Drones Got Quiet, and That Changed Everything

Noise was the constraint nobody put in the specification. Reducing it opened use cases that no amount of flight time could unlock.

The Edge Quietly Moved Into the City

Compute is being installed in cabinets on ordinary streets. The reasons are less about latency than most of the marketing suggests.

Every Team Needs a Writer

Not a technical writer, and not a manager who writes. Someone whose job is to make the team's thinking legible to the team itself.

Passwords Are Finally Getting Boring

Passkeys removed the interesting failure modes from signing in. The remaining problems are administrative, which is a considerable upgrade.