Google first released Family Link a few years ago, as a way to help parents monitor their kid’s devices. However, it had a few issues: When it first came out, you could only monitor new Google accounts. If your kids already had an account, like ours did, they simply couldn’t added. Later, they added the […]
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Make the personal connection, or why Liberty Mutual is much better to us than Allstate
Early in the morning of August 20, 2011, our neighbors tree fell across both of our cars. The tree had been leaning for years, and did some serious damage (but not quite enough to total them). We called Allstate, they had us call Marietta Tree Service (who was great!), and we started the process of […]
Becoming Superhuman pushed me back to iPhone
I’ve loved Android for years (and still do), but I often said something like “I’m using Android for now, and for the foreseeable future, but I’ll move back to iPhone if it ever makes more sense for me.” In my opinion, people on both sides should always keep an open mind; “iPhone for life!” or […]
Before you worry about 1%, just get one
A common phrase is that “even if only 1% of people do x…”, but that can be a dangerous place to start a conversation. Years ago, there was a musician looking for new ways to sell his music. He saved up and bought an ad in the back of a major magazine that had over […]