Ctrl Alt Deliberate
Josh McConnellLess hype. More context. Human, story-driven analysis of how technology, business and media shape culture, and where those stories break.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 48 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | a month ago |
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Why two phones, physical keyboards and no-AI search are bringing back tech boundaries
There was a time when carrying two phones made you look like a drug dealer, a Wall Street trader, or someone who had not yet figured out call forwarding.
Now it might just mean you have Slack.
This has been on my mind lately because I’m a...
The most interesting consumer tech right now is the kind built to do less
I placed the pre-order earlier this month. $389 for the Unihertz Titan 2 Elite, an early-bird Kickstarter price for a phone with a physical keyboard that ships in June.
As I pressed the digital checkout button, a Remington Portable typewr...
John Ternus is Apple's new CEO. The announcement didn't mention AI.
Apple has named John Ternus as its next CEO, formalizing a long-anticipated transition that was one of the industry’s worst-kept secrets. The choice itself doesn’t come out of nowhere, but the context around it is what makes it interesting....
Anthropic’s Mythos moved the Fed before anyone could verify it
This past week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell brought Wall Street leaders into a meeting about a new Anthropic model most people haven’t seen.
The Fed and Treasury don’t convene banks over product...
Why OpenAI bought TBPN and what it means for where the AI story gets written
OpenAI just bought a media company. No, I didn’t expect to write that sentence either.
Sam Altman announced it the way he posts about most things on X — light, almost offhand, like he was recommending a show he likes. But the move itself i...
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