2026-08-23 -  From the CEO who once drove a forklift to game developers taking 250,000 photos of New York, real experience beats abstraction every time, and can make the difference between good and groundbreaking.

2026-08-15 -  From Thomas Tuchel's dissatisfaction with a winning England performance to a man running in the 35-degree Austin sun – this month's Field Notes is about doing things properly, even in difficult conditions.

2026-07-12 -  Great products are built for users – not to chase new trends, save a few extra pennies, or restrict customer choice. Sometimes what seem like good ideas to executives and designers simply don’t stand up in real life.

2026-05-31 -  I've spent years writing about technology without identifying the thread connecting it all. Then I realised: I'm obsessed with people who care about the things they do – and frustrated by those who don't.

2026-05-17 -  IGN's perfect review score for Mixtape sparked a debate about gameplay, interactivity, and what a video game actually is. Having finished it, I think a ten out of ten is hard to justify no matter which definition you use.

2026-04-12 -  Before algorithmic bias and advertising took over, search felt different. Kagi is trying to take us back — stripping out ads and SEO spam, and actively promoting the small web that most engines quietly suppress.

2026-03-29 -  F1's new rules have given us surface-level entertainment – but the racing feels artificial, the drivers are managing batteries instead of pushing limits, and its leaders seem reluctant to admit there's a problem.

2026-03-08 -  At £599, the MacBook Neo is Apple's most affordable laptop in years. The package is stylish, colourful, and compact – but the 8GB RAM cap restricts it to users for whom an iPhone may already be enough.

2025-12-23 -  I was much better at keeping note of things I read, watched, and played in 2025. It seemed rude not to share, so here's a roundup of the best things I found this year (and some to you might want to avoid).

2025-10-05 -  There’s a new cool kid on the AI block, and its name is Anthropic. On my recent trip to New York, I noted the huge poster campaigns for its Claude large language models (LLMs), but it turned out that was just the beginning. Just after I flew back ...