What a Month of Sleep Tracking Actually Taught Me
Hoping for validation about my nightly habits, I began tracking my sleep, only to face an uncomfortable mirror. Rather than granting extra rest, the software simply forced me to confront what I regularly sacrificed sleep to indulge in.
Building a Smart Home Without Subscriptions
Nearly every connected appliance on store shelves demands an ongoing membership fee these days, turning basic lighting into recurring overhead. Following a flood of automated warnings that saved camera clips were being w…
Getting the Whole Family onto a Password Manager
Gathering the household to lecture them on credential hygiene met instant resistance until I altered the value proposition. Rather than discussing threat models, I framed the change around never forgetting a site passwor…
I Took the Apps Off My Smartwatch. It Got Better.
My watch used to mirror every phone notification to my wrist - a slot machine that happened to tell the time. One weekend I removed everything except calls, messages from three people, and turn-by-turn directions.…
Five Kitchen Gadgets That Earn Their Counter Space
Counter space is the scarcest resource in a city kitchen, so a gadget has to justify its footprint weekly, not yearly. Most do not. After a decade of testing, exactly five have survived my purges.…
Your Photos Deserve Better Than a Camera Roll
The average camera roll is a landfill with some diamonds in it. Screenshots of parking spots, seventy photos of one sunset, and the actual memories buried somewhere in the middle.…
The Home Office Upgrade Nobody Talks About: Light
We obsess over chairs and monitors, then work all winter under one sad ceiling lamp. Light is the upgrade with the biggest effect per euro on how a workday feels, and it is the one almost everyone skips.…
About this magazine
This magazine started as a newsletter between friends arguing about e-bikes and coffee gear. It grew into a weekly publication about living deliberately with modern tools - what to buy, what to skip, and what to switch off.
A weekly magazine about living well with (and without) technology.