Daily Dose of Curious

Find the annoyance. Ask why it exists. Most good tools start there rather than with an idea.

14 SEP 2026MAKING

Nothing I have built began with wanting to build something. It began with doing the same irritating thing for the fourth time that week and finally asking who decided it had to be like that.

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Rethinking Field ServiceProject

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