The Differentiation Premium
Recently, I've taken to watching a YouTube channel critiquing mansions. He goes over many of the flaws he finds in these ultra-luxury mansion tours in an entertaining and educational way: interior design mishaps,...
Hardware
The Vision Pro, an Unintentional Trojan Horse for AR
We just passed the second anniversary of the Apple Vision Pro. At launch, it was—and is—an amazing piece of technology. I initially reacted with excitement to this new device category. But the Vision...
Year of the Linux Console, Steam Edition
A few weeks back, Valve—the company most famously behind the Steam platform for PC games—announced a trio of hardware devices slated for an early 2026 release. Adding to their already-excellent portable-gaming console, the...
The Wearable Decade
For about two decades, the blistering pace of smartphone hardware improvements has driven manufacturing advances. We've made massive engineering improvements in all the components in the latest flagship phones: touch screens, systems-on-a-chip, tiny...
A Dent on the Floor
When we moved into our current home, we prioritized replacing the floors with hardwood flooring on the advice of our realtor. It made sense; it's a lot more painful to clear away furniture...
Through the Looking Glass
Augmented Reality (AR) is one of these technologies we keep returning to. The sheer science-fiction ness of wearing a computer on our faces, augmenting what we see around us with information gleaned from a combination...