There is a specific kind of embarrassment that happens when someone sits down at your desk. Not the paperwork embarrassment. Not the monitor-with-too-many-tabs embarrassment. The crumb embarrassment. That moment when a visitor glances down at…
There is a specific kind of open-plan office misery that every remote-to-office worker knows. You come back from working at home—where you controlled every sound in your environment—and you sit down at a shared desk…
For three years I had been doing something I’m slightly embarrassed to admit now. I was using a laptop for all my work-from-home sessions, video calls, music, and YouTube—and tolerating the built-in speakers because getting…
Gift shopping for dads is quietly one of the most stressful purchases you’ll make all year. Not because you don’t know your dad. Because you know him well enough to know what he already has,…
Video 47 is sitting in my YouTube channel right now, and it has 340 views. Not because the content was bad. Not because the thumbnail was wrong. It has 340 views because within the first…
My desk setup used to look like someone had dropped a plate of spaghetti on it. An HDMI cable from the monitor looping around the speakers, a power strip cable running behind the desk, and…
There is a specific kind of frustration that comes from losing a close game and not being entirely sure if it was your fault or your equipment’s. About eight months ago I was playing Elden…
The incident happened on a Tuesday evening during what should have been a relaxed gaming session. My roommate walked past my desk, tripped over absolutely nothing—classic—and sent a full can of Monster Energy directly onto…
I was standing in the Apple Store with a pair of AirPods Pro 2 in my hand, credit card already out, when my friend who works in IT asked me a question that stopped me…
Last December my good wireless headphones died mid-semester—right in the final stretch of a three-week project deadline. The charging port had been flaky for months, and one morning they just wouldn’t turn on anymore. I…
