Global Chip Supply: The Post-Shortage Landscape
Technology
The acute semiconductor shortages that defined 2021-2023 have largely resolved. Lead times for most commodity chips have returned to pre-pandemic norms, though ...
observations from near and far
Technology
The acute semiconductor shortages that defined 2021-2023 have largely resolved. Lead times for most commodity chips have returned to pre-pandemic norms, though ...
Opinion
We talk about platform accountability a lot. Congressional hearings, op-eds, regulatory proposals — the discourse is voluminous. Yet what we actually do about i...
Personal Finance
We tested six leading budgeting apps over three months of real usage, tracking actual income, expenses, savings goals, and investment accounts. The goal was to ...
Culture
For most of the past decade, the dominant narrative about reading was decline. Attention spans shrinking, articles shortening, video replacing text. The data mo...
Software
As AI coding assistants have improved, some have declared that software craftsmanship is becoming irrelevant. If the AI can write the code, what does it matter ...
SaaS
Horizontal SaaS markets — CRM, ERP, general productivity — are mature and dominated by established players. The most attractive new opportunities are in vertica...
Software
The video conferencing market has matured substantially since the pandemic-driven explosion. Quality basics — video resolution, audio clarity, screen sharing — ...
Lifestyle
Most of us are aware, intellectually, that spending hours on devices each day is not great for us. Yet the design of modern digital life makes healthier pattern...
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