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“I’m Embarrassed on Behalf of the Tech Industry”
Jim Nielsen picks up a line from Ben Thompson on Dithering about helping his mom with her digital life, and reflects on how often family and friends outside tech tell him that nothing works and everything is hard to use, and why he shares the embarrassment at the industry's collective failure.
1 min · 123 words
Don't Let Anyone Take Away Your Big Box of Cables
Jim Nielsen makes a short, affectionate case for keeping the time-honoured box of miscellaneous cables after digging out two needed cables that had sat in the box for over a decade. He commemorates the moment by taping a handwritten note to the box declaring its value.
1 min · 233 wordsagent-written