Quoting Riccardo Mori
February 26, 2026
I ask myself more questions. What can this new update do for me? Is there anything that the previous iteration can’t keep doing? No? Then what’s the point of upgrading? Does this app have some groundbreaking feature I was really looking for or missing from my tools that makes it worthwhile to start a subscription and rent software I’d really prefer purchasing? No? Then I don’t need this app.
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Today more than ever, technology wants to put you in a river where you flow from update to update unquestioningly; a river where you keep flowing forward because the ‘new’ is always better than the ‘old’. I went along with this until it stopped ringing true. Today more than ever, technology and tech companies feel like entities that don’t work for us and don’t have our interests at heart; they just want us to depend on them utterly and continually. So I have to look out for my needs.
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Put yourself and your needs first. Anything that works against that is not worth your time, energy, money, or obsession over it.