The Setup: Why I Thought This Would Change Everything I bought the Apple Vision Pro about a year after launch. Not because I needed it, but because I was curious about whether I needed it. There’s a difference, though I…
Author: Harold Little
The Setup: Why I Decided to Test Drive the Whole Category Around the beginning of this year, I realized I’d been opening journaling apps the way some people open their fridge at midnight—not really looking for anything specific, just hoping…
The Book That Showed Up at Exactly the Right Time Cal Newport’s “Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout” landed in March 2024, and I’ll be honest—I almost didn’t pick it up. The title felt precious. Like something…
The Thing I Was Absolutely Sure I Wouldn’t Do Six months ago, I would have told you that AI journaling apps were the digital equivalent of a motivational poster. Nice idea. Deeply unnecessary. The kind of thing people bought when…
The Thing Everyone’s Doing That I Spent Six Months Making Fun Of There’s this moment when you realize you’ve been wrong about something you were pretty confident about. For me, that moment happened on a Tuesday morning while I was…
What Even Is a Dopamine Menu? If you’ve been anywhere near TikTok in the last few months, you’ve probably seen someone enthusiastically categorizing their joy into a restaurant-style menu. The dopamine menu trend started with ADHD coach Jaclyn Paul, who…
Last Tuesday I watched my neighbor spend twenty minutes trying to parallel park while simultaneously livestreaming the ordeal to her Instagram followers. She kept backing up, adjusting her phone angle, and narrating her struggle like David Attenborough documenting wildlife. I…
The Setup: When Your Phone Becomes a Lab Rat So Google launched this thing called Digital Wellness AI back in January, and I figured why not volunteer my scrolling addiction as tribute to the algorithm gods. The premise is straightforward…
When Work Stops Feeling Like Work Last Tuesday I caught myself actually excited to open my laptop at 7 AM. Not the fake excitement you perform for your boss during standup meetings, but the real kind where you forget to…
The $1,200 Question Nobody’s Asking When Apple slashed twelve hundred dollars off the Vision Pro 2 this February, bringing it down to $2,299, most people saw desperation. I see something else entirely. Sure, Apple’s Vision Pro pricing strategy screams “we…