Some people say that life is pain. Those people are optimistic: life isn’t pain, it’s pains, plural—tooth pain, back pain, breakup-pain, the pain of watching your parents grow old and die, the pain of downwardly adjusting your expectations for life,… Read More ›
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1 Woman, 12 Months, 52 Places
When I started this harebrained experiment in January, to visit and report on the Times’s entire 52 Places to Go in 2018 list, I thought that by stop 48, for sure, I’d be the Wonder Woman of travel: blocking mishaps… Read More ›
1 iPhone X, 15 months, 94%
I received my iPhone X on 7th November 2017 and have used it extensively since. I consider myself a power user who uses it for a variety of tasks and who consistently does the following each day- Approx one hour… Read More ›
“Give me back your Twitter, bitch”
I wasn’t. I felt violated – and furious. As someone who writes a lot on feminism and racism, I’m sadly used to being trolled. I’m often told to go and kill myself, and am frequently told how ‘ugly’ and ‘worthless’… Read More ›
JUUL – building a new addiction
JUUL is the poster child of the vaping industry with a $38 billion valuation and teenagers hooked on the product all over the world. I have vaped for a few years and use 6mg nicotine content which is more than… Read More ›
Building your perfect Apple Watch face
On the series 4 Apple has added the ability to include a huge amount of glanceable data in one face (Infograph). With nine sections there is a lot on view at one time, but with some time spent looking for… Read More ›
The Future of Work Requires Investments in Human Capital
“The world is healthier and more educated than ever,” notes the World Bank in a new report, The Human Capital Project. “But a large and unfinished agenda remains. Life expectancy in the developing world still lags far behind that of… Read More ›
Embracing Apple’s Boring Future
But a careful read of Tim Cook’s letter to shareholders suggests the opposite. Instead, Cook seems poised to double down on boring services, like the kind that have helped Microsoft and Amazon. Once iPhones reach market saturation, Apple is far… Read More ›
Avoiding tech?
I may have read this completely wrong, but two recent stories made my ears prick up. The first was the rise in paper book sales which follows on a continuing trend where paper is gaining a bigger share of the… Read More ›
Is the Oris Divers Sixty Five perfect?
Probably. Well, it seems to be perfect for me or as perfect as any watch can get. Perfection is an unachievable aim and one that we would likely not want to attain even if we could. The opposite sex, or… Read More ›
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