What's On Your Home Screen, iFixit Co-Founder Kyle Wiens?

The Second Smartphone Revolution - AVC

Benedict Evans tweeted out this chart yesterday: We sometimes think of the shift to mobile as finished, or almost finished. It isn’t. pic.twitter.com/l5gaiMlaoU — Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) March 12, 2016 The first 2.5bn smartphones brought us Instagram, Snapchat, Uber, Whatsapp, Kik, Venmo, Duolingo, and most importantly, drove the big web apps to build world class […]

What's On Your Home Screen, Microsoft Engineer Erica Joy Baker?

Order and purpose from a principal group engineering manager at Microsoft

The digital exiles: Why people are abandoning their smartphones - Coda Story

A growing movement of “former screenagers” is calling for a screen-free, surveillance-free life, for a chance to build a future beyond tech capture

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Rupert Manfredi is a software developer & product designer with an eye on how emerging tech interacts with human culture.

A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley (Published 2018)

“I am convinced the devil lives in our phones.”

Runcible - Circular Open Source Anti-Smartphone by Aubrey Anderson - Indiegogo

The heirloom, smart pocket device made of sustainably sourced hardwood and upgradable electronics.

All Things Sales! 16 Mini-Lessons for Startup Founders | Andreessen Horowitz

As a former CEO and software engineer (Citrix, XenSource, VERITAS, etc.), board member of GitHub (recently acquired by Microsoft), and lecturer in management at the Stanford Graduate School of Busines, a16z general partner Peter Levine is constantly asked “Why sales?” by entrepreneurs and technical founders. He himself used to hold the “engineer-centric” view that if...

Decentralizing My Smartphone With Single Purpose Devices

Lately, I’ve become nostalgic for the days before smartphones, when the internet was a place we went to deliberately, and not a place that lived on all of ou...

Secret Life of a Full-Time Cyborg

Steve Mann invented a precursor to Google Glass in the 1990s—which he now uses almost 24/7. But “the father of wearable computing” has an ominous warning about where technology is taking us next.

Dale-Anthony Williams - Product Designer

UI/UX Designer with over ten years of experience specialising in interface design for mobile and web-based applications with a focus on simplicity & usability.

'Our minds can be hijacked': the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia

The Google, Apple and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet. Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks who worry the race for human attention has created a world of perpetual distraction that could ultimately end in disaster

‘My social life completely plummeted’: gen Z is fighting back against big tech

From apps that block distractions to stripped-down phones, young people are finding ways to unplug from platforms they say profit from their attention