A verbal boundary is a sentence. “Mommy is working right now.” “Give me five more minutes.” “Please wait until the call is over.” These sentences are reasonable, clearly communicated, and completely ineffective on a toddler who has not yet developed…
A laptop microphone is an omnidirectional capsule. Omnidirectional means exactly what it sounds like. It picks up sound arriving from every direction at roughly equal sensitivity. The microphone does not know you are the person speaking. It does not know…
BLE stands for Bluetooth Low Energy. It is the wireless protocol that lets a device this small run for up to three years on a single CR2032 coin cell battery the size of a shirt button. The Flic 2 uses…
Most people set up a monitor the way it arrives. Out of the box, onto the stand, onto the desk. It takes four minutes and it feels done. It is not done. It is just the beginning of a problem…
The short answer is yes. The longer answer is that most chair manufacturers have not figured this out yet, and the ones that have charge accordingly. Ergonomic chairs dominate the work-from-home conversation for good reason. Eight hours in a bad…
Why 5:30 AM Changed Everything About My Workday? The alarm goes off at 5:28 AM. Not 5:30. Not a round number. 5:28, because two minutes of lying there before the alarm is the difference between getting up and hitting snooze.…
I heard the pop before I saw it happen. That specific, hollow, plastic-on-plastic sound that every mechanical keyboard owner learns to fear. I turned around and Reve was standing on his step stool at my desk, holding the “G” key…
There’s a moment that happens every evening around 5:47 PM. The laptop is still open. Slack has three unread threads. Reve is at the baby gate, holding a plastic dinosaur, staring at me like I owe him something. And he’s…