Hey everyone! In my latest blog post, I dive into some fascinating reads including America’s love-hate relationship with chicken nuggets, the Sonos app debacle, the repairability of the new iPhone 16, and Dieter Rams inspired iPhone dock design. Plus, I explore how Ben Franklin calculated a molecule’s size, training software engineers, and how the Intelligence Age could seem magical to our grandparents. Enjoy!
- Why America hates to love chicken nuggets: Kids love to eat them. Parents love to fight about them.
- How Sonos Botched an App and Infuriated Its Customers: Ignoring “tech debt,” disregarding employee warnings and cutting costs combined to create a crisis that the high-end audio company is still struggling to recover from.
- We Hot-Wired the iPhone 16: The iPhone 16 lineup makes three big leaps in repairability. It sets the stage for a new world of repairable devices with voltage-release adhesive.
- How I Designed a Dieter Rams inspired iPhone Dock: Dieter Rams and his friends (Dietrich Lubs and Ludwig Littman) designed many great looking alarm clocks. I’m looking for one for a long time. Because I have many books about Braun (the company) and Dieter Rams, here are some of their designs: I have been looking for an original DN
- Estimating the Size of a Single Molecule: How Ben Franklin and Lord Rayleigh used little more than oil and water to calculate a molecule’s size.
- Software engineers training software engineers: What is it like to teach software engineers, full time? Reuven M. Lerner has done this for 15 years, and shares his hands-on learnings – including how to teach efficiently
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- The Intelligence Age: In the next couple of decades, we will be able to do things that would have seemed like magic to our grandparents.