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I almost threw my $400 watch into the Hudson River last Tuesday. There I was, sprinting through Penn Station’s sweaty chaos, late for a investor pitch that could make or break my startup. My palms were slick against my briefcase handle as I fumbled for my phone - boarding pass, Uber confirmation, pitch deck - all buried in digital rubble. The sleek circular screen on my wrist? Blankly displaying the time and my embarrassingly high heart rate. What good is a "smart"watch that can’t even show trai

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That Sydney winter gnawed at my bones in ways the calendar never warned about. Six months fresh off the plane from Toronto, I’d mastered dodging magpies but still couldn’t decode the local radio’s cricket commentary. One glacial Wednesday, hunched over lukewarm coffee in a Surry Hills alley, I thumbed through my dying phone searching for anything resembling human connection. That’s when the algorithm gods coughed up SBS Audio – not that I knew then how its algorithm actually scrapes cultural met

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Rain lashed against my apartment windows last Tuesday - the kind of storm that makes power flicker and WiFi groan. I'd just spent eight hours debugging spaghetti code that refused to untangle, my fingers twitching with residual frustration. That's when I swiped open the explosive orange icon on my homescreen. Not for the first time, Tacticool's brutal physics engine became my therapy session. Within seconds, I was fishtailing a stolen pickup through mud-slicked alleys, bullets pinging off the ta

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