by Allan | Jun 5, 2026 | Digital Culture
The average person worldwide now spends 6 hours and 38 minutes per day looking at screens. Four and a half of those hours are on a smartphone. If you’re a knowledge worker, your screen time is almost certainly higher. And if you’ve tried to cut back and...
by Allan | Jun 5, 2026 | Digital Culture
AI video has had a long almost-useful phase. You could generate clips that looked impressive in screenshots and fell apart the moment anything moved. Runway’s Gen-4.5, which shipped earlier this year, is the version where I stopped noticing those things first...
by Allan | Jun 4, 2026 | Tech & Lifestyle
Running watches have had a quiet revolution over the past 18 months, and most of it happened while everyone was distracted by the smartwatch wars. Garmin’s two new Forerunners — the 70 and 170 — landed in May and slot cleanly into both ends of that range. Garmin...
by Allan | Jun 3, 2026 | Remote Work
Somewhere between the 47th “game-changing AI tool” newsletter you subscribed to and the Chrome extension you installed but never opened, something got lost: the actual question of whether any of this is making your work better. In 2026, the answer is yes —...
by Allan | Jun 3, 2026 | Digital Culture
For the past decade, the cultural story around tech was accumulation. More apps, more notifications, more screens. The person who responded fastest was, implicitly, the most important one in the room. That story has quietly inverted. The most coveted status symbol of...
by Allan | Jun 2, 2026 | Tech & Lifestyle
If you’ve been sitting on a laptop purchase waiting for something genuinely interesting to happen, this week might be your signal to pay attention. Nvidia and Microsoft just coordinated a cryptic “new era of PC” tease ahead of Computex 2026 in Taipei...
by Allan | Jun 2, 2026 | Tech & Lifestyle
May was a noisy month for hardware. MWC ran its usual parade of concept devices and spec announcements, most of which won’t survive contact with real people’s pockets. But underneath the press releases, a handful of things shipped that are genuinely worth...
by Allan | Jun 1, 2026 | Tech & Lifestyle
If you woke up this morning and opened your GitHub Copilot settings to find a new billing screen, you’re not imagining things. As of June 1, 2026, GitHub has officially flipped the switch on its usage-based billing model — and for developers who lean on agentic...
by Allan | May 24, 2026 | Remote Work
Heads up: This post contains affiliate links. If you buy something through one of them, we may earn a small commission — at no extra cost to you. We only recommend things we’d actually use ourselves. A good home office setup doesn’t require a huge budget....
by Allan | May 24, 2026 | Digital Culture
There’s a lot of noise around AI tools right now. Some of it is genuine excitement about real capability improvements. Some of it is marketing. And some of it is people retrofitting AI into their workflow because they feel like they’re supposed to, not...
