Essays

Mar 13, 2020
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9 years ago, a new startup in Germany proved to-do lists didn’t have to be boring and sterile. Wunderlist was the perfect to-do list for 2011, when the iPhone still had bubbly buttons and the popular new apps looked more like real-world items than software. And here came Wunderlist with its…

Jan 17, 2020
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Education is expensive. If there’s one tiny bright side to the costs of tuition and textbooks, though, it’s that tech is far cheaper as a student.

It’s not only the regular back-to-school discounts on laptops or Apple Music and Spotify’s half priced student plans that help. You can also get much of…

Dec 13, 2019
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This is the best thing you could buy, promises the internet, the holy grail, the be all end all, everything you’ve ever wanted. This product does everything at once—or maybe it only does one thing, but it does that task better than anything ever did it before.

You don’t have time or budget to try…

Nov 26, 2019
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When your car has an odd noise at a specific speed in inclement weather, it’s frustrating yet forgettable. When the car won’t start in the morning, though—or, perhaps worse, when it randomly won’t start even after repairs for seemingly no reason—it’s maddening. Something that used to work doesn’t…

Oct 16, 2019
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It starts with a shiny new app in beta, free while you try it out. It sticks, and its paid plans make sense. You happily upgrade and bring your team onboard.

Then one day you get an email about amazing new features and their associated rise in price, or add another team member and notice the price…