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Then, when I put a pair on for myself, the situation suddenly changed. As a potential target of recording, I’d been hesitant, worried I might be photographed or filmed as a byproduct of making polite eye contact. With the glasses on my own face, though, I felt that I should be recording more. There’s something really compelling about the experience... See more

Jay Peters • Welcome to Meta’s future, where everyone wears cameras

iOS 18 Is Out Now. Here Are the Best New Features.

Max Eddy nytimes.com

++ Fukinsei: asymmetry or imbalance (Don’t get caught up in checking every e-mail all the time.) ++ Kanso: simplicity or elimination of clutter (Keep your favorite sites to a minimum, close down old accounts, and avoid carrying too many devices.) ++ Koko: austerity or bare essentials (Streamline your devices, services, and even contact list.) ++ Sh

Daniel Sieberg • The Digital Diet: The 4-step plan to break your tech addiction and regain balance in your life

Ev Williams: How I Keep Tech in Check

Ev Williams medium.com

When Doerr asked about the volume of daily transactions, Bezos leaned over a computer and typed a grep command next to a UNIX prompt, instantly pulling up the data—and demonstrating his technical fluency. Doerr swooned.

Brad Stone • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

Looking Closely is Everything

Craig Mod craigmod.com

SOME OF ALEX’S TOOLS Field Recording Audio-Technica AT8035 shotgun microphone TASCAM DR-100mkII recorder Sony MDR-7506 headphones XLR cable(s) Software Avid Pro Tools for editing Chartbeat for analytics

Ferriss, Timothy • Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

After all, what does Spotify do? It takes a corpus of stuff (music) and finds endless new ways to show it to users. Users can save the stuff they know they like (a library), explore things curated by other users (playlists) or turn to the app's machine-learning tools for ultra-personalized recommendations (Discover Weekly and the like).

David Pierce • Spotify for readers: How tech is inventing better ways to read the internet

Page rarely visited YouTube HQ—one person there while he was CEO remembered two trips—but during his rare appearances Page stuck to one edict: make videos load faster. Staff recalled Page stopping meetings to complain about YouTube’s buffering speed, which he once called, to YouTube’s embarrassment, “the biggest problem Google-wide.”