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Growing up and tiring of tech

Somehow I’ve gotten to a stage in my life where I can buy all the tech stuff I want, and it’s just no longer that interesting. I used to dream about new gadgets and imagine how they’d improve my life, but of course they never really did. [...] But there’s something to be said for owning beautiful, useful objects that light up your home and make you smile every time you see them—and that always work just as expected, that will never crash, need a motherboard replacement, burn your legs, or talk back to you with indecipherable demands.

Designer Amy Hoy, in an interview about the technologies she uses to do her work. I know what she means. I guess maybe I'm starting to grow up too.

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