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The Quiet Reason Google Still Runs Our Daily Lives
For something most of us open dozens of times a day, Google has become strangely invisible. I don’t mean invisible in the technica...
Email flows every online store should run on autopilot
Email is the most underrated revenue channel for small stores. Not because it's flashy — it isn't — but because it works, and the...
A checklist for product pages that actually convert
Product pages are where the money is decided, and most small stores treat them as a finishing task instead of the central design p...
When discounting works (and when it quietly hurts you)
Discounting feels like a free lever. Lower the price, more people buy, problem solved. The catch is that discounts have a memory....
How to evaluate a new app before installing it
Most app installs are decisions made under marketing pressure — a friend mentioned it, an ad caught the eye, a review went up the...
Privacy-respecting alternatives to apps you probably already use
Most of the privacy advice on the internet either tells you to switch your entire stack to obscure tools (which almost nobody does...
The case for a deliberately boring home screen
The home screen is the most-seen page in your life, and most people's home screens are designed by accident. Apps land where they...
A weekend ritual for keeping your phone uncluttered
Phones accumulate. Not for any single dramatic reason — just the steady drift of installs, photos, downloaded PDFs, expired login...
Reading the news without doom-scrolling
The news, as it's currently delivered to most people, is optimized for a kind of attention nobody actually wants. Headlines are tu...
Why we publish recommendations instead of rankings
A ranking implies that the things being ranked are comparable on a single dimension, and that there is a correct order. Both impli...
Notes on staying focused in a noisy week
The week starts with a clean schedule and ends with a feeling of having worked hard without finishing the things that mattered. Mo...
A short reading list for curious people
Reading lists are usually too long. The compiler wants to seem well-read, the reader wants to seem ambitious, and the result is a...