Why Slow Technology Might Save Your Attention Span
Every new device promises to save you time, and somehow the opposite keeps happening. The average phone is checked well over a hundred times a day — not because we decided that…
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Every new device promises to save you time, and somehow the opposite keeps happening. The average phone is checked well over a hundred times a day — not because we decided that…
Vinyl sales have grown for over a decade now, but the more interesting shift is who’s buying: a lot of it is listeners who grew up entirely on streaming, picking up a…
The “shoulder season” — the few weeks between peak crowds and off-season closures — rarely gets marketed, mostly because there’s no single stretch of dates that applies everywhere. But the pattern repeats…
Standing desks became a fixture of office culture on a fairly simple pitch: sitting all day is bad for you, so stand instead. A decade and a fair amount of research later,…
A recognizable pattern has emerged among some of the more durable independent software companies: small teams, often four or five people, still profitably running products used by tens of thousands. No investors…
The fixed, multi-course menu used to be a formality reserved for special occasions. Lately it’s become a practical answer to a real problem: rising ingredient costs and thinner margins have made the…
Not every trip needs a spreadsheet. A two-day mountain weekend, planned with nothing more than a rough direction and a full tank of gas, tends to produce better stories than the meticulously…
“Doing less” gets dismissed as a lifestyle-brand slogan, but the underlying idea is closer to a scheduling principle than a philosophy: most calendars are full not because every item on them matters,…