She tells us: ‘I need to have a strong routine to manage it ‘A lot of the ways that I manage it is structurally, forcing myself to have to leave the house and making plans with people that I can’t… Read More ›
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iPhone 11 ProApple Watch series 6 (44mm stainless steel)iPad Air (2020)Apple Pencil 2MacBook Air M1Apple TV 4th generationiPhone XApple Watch series 6 (40mm stainless steel)MacBook 2017iPhone 7iPhone 7AirPods ProAirPods ProAirPods Pro The above is a list of the Apple products… Read More ›
Buy the product, not the idea
“Ad Maiora is an automatic watch integrated with a number of superb smart functions suitable for day-to-day life.” If you pre-order the Ad Maiora you will pay €539 with the future retail price quoted as €1100. It is an intriguing… Read More ›
The Casio Calculator Watch: a ‘huge’ dose of nostalgia
If you want to purchase a new product today to experience a genuine hit of nostalgia from your youth (if you are around 50 years of age in my case) it is very hard to do because so few products… Read More ›
Why people do not move from the iPhone?
If you go to this link on your iPhone you can experience what a Samsung Android smartphone feels like to use. It is a clever interactive website that attempts to offer a representation of how it would feel if you… Read More ›
How we are taught to measure success is so wrong
I was struck by the above image in this tweet. This is something I have been hoodwinked by my whole life. I have always measured success by my job title and the associated salary, and with this the material objects… Read More ›
The Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Quadriptyque: this is why analogue trumps digital
It is not easy for many of us to appreciate luxury objects and to understand why they cost so much. We look at expensive watches, jewellery and branded clothing and perceive that it is just the branding and a whole… Read More ›
Musicians are in peril
It was the kind of story sold to millions of music acts about the global reach of the internet. In a connected world, ideas, thoughts, and yes, songs could break across borders, building audiences where none before existed. It was… Read More ›
What is the best digital note taker?
My iPad Pro (1st generation) is close to death. The battery is holding a charge for an hour at most, often less, and the cost of fixing it is prohibitive. I can get it done for £150 by a third… Read More ›
“People need relationships”
I don’t remember anything about the experiments, but when I found out about them in my late 20s, a remarkable thing happened. Which is that years after her death, I had a reconciliation with my mother. Because I’d been so… Read More ›