my bird feeder has been begging me to charge it for weeks.

the problem is, we don’t need a lot of smart connected things. we each want one or two smart connected things.

but we each want different connected things.

that makes for a very large market of connected things. but there aren’t enough manufacturers to make them well, and they all generate knock-on effects that are unique to the user.

so there’s just a lot of really bad digital crap out there and most of it is disappointing.

Eric Brookfield @ericbrookfield