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You’re doing it wrong

This is a catch-all category for when I complain about your crappy business. You’re doing it wrong is a list of new articles about how to potentially improve your out-dated way of dealing with customers.

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Creative Tip Jars

In many countries tipping is not part of the culture. Iceland is one of those countries. You never really tip for a taxi or food or other services. This leads to a difficult and usually empty tip jar at small shops and restaurants.

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Blind Men and the Elephant

Being like the blind men watching big tech companies develop in public isn’t enough. You need to be able to connect all those dots and that’s not easy.

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Muscle flexes

To get better at anything takes practice. Practicing is hard, it sucks, but you gotta suck it up. That’s the only way to improve.

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Optimized Charging

With the push to USB-C connectors for more and more devices, what’s the best way to optimize your chargers? From GaN 30W to the humble 5W, what should you use for which device?

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Network Plumbing

Going hand-in-hand with our backup plans, we’ve been re-organizing the network to optimize all the devices and get a few new, nice super powers.

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