Marginly.
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Priya Nair
Technology writer and former engineer. Interested in what software does to attention.
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2026
writing with us since
Jul 31, 2026
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Attention is not a muscle
We keep being told to train our focus. The better question is who built the room we are trying to focus in.
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Jul 26, 2026
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The spreadsheet that ran a village
How a volunteer accountant's file became the most important piece of software in a valley of four hundred people.
Jul 22, 2026
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Search engines learned to answer. Then we stopped asking.
When the answer arrives before the question is finished, what happens to curiosity?
Jul 16, 2026
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Repair cafés are the real internet of things
A Saturday in a church hall where toasters come back to life.
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Jul 12, 2026
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Notes on a very small server
I moved my family photos to a computer the size of a paperback. Here is what I learned about owning my data.