It’s now impossible to live your best life without subsidizing Silicon Valley
Over the past couple of months, I’ve starting doing something unusual: traveling for my own sake rather than work duties. Turns out, all those vacations people keep taking are actually pretty cool, and seeing Europe’s grand cities without my head buried in a laptop is a whole different experience. And yet, even as I’ve left the MacBook Pro and tactical backpack at home, my mobile device has kept me in close and personal contact with the tech industry. I went away to Italy this weekend, and I gleefully neglected my job the whole time, and yet I was still very much working. For Silicon Valley.
What do I mean by this? Well, like every other human with an iPhone or Android device, I use apps and services, and most of those are free at the…
