Practical Technology Tips

You opened a tech newsletter in January 2023. By March, everyone was using AI tools you’d never heard of. That speed isn’t normal. It’s disorienting.

You open your browser and get hit with twenty tech headlines before breakfast. Most of them mean nothing. Some are wrong.

You open your browser and get hit with ten tech headlines before you’ve had coffee. Three say AI is ending jobs. Two say it’s saving them.

You scroll. You skim. You close the tab. Another headline about AI doing something wild.

You scroll. You skim. You close the tab. Another headline about AI changing everything.

You’ve seen the ads. The sleek wristbands. The smart rings. The $500 vests that track your breathing.

You bought a wearable last year. It sat in a drawer after three weeks. I know because I’ve talked to dozens of people who did the exact same thing.

You scroll past another tech headline and feel nothing but fatigue. Not curiosity. Not excitement. Just tired.

You’re debugging a model in Berlin at 2 a.m. Your deployment goes live tomorrow.

By 2050, we’re feeding nearly 10 billion people. And right now? Our food system is breaking. I’ve watched farms burn out soil. Seen water tables drop.

Your team just missed a regulatory deadline. Because you thought that AI tooling rule only applied in Europe. (It didn’t.

You’re tired of reading tech headlines that sound like press releases. They scream “game-changing” while the product barely works on a Mac.