Digital Issues ⁽³⁾

Shift, the boy April 9, 2026

What are “Artificial and Arbitrary Limitations” (AALs) and which limits does not count.

In the upcoming weeks, we will discuss a key and emerging issue on digital rights, that we internally refer to as Artificial and Arbitary Limitations (AALs). Since this word is relatively new for most people, we’re just going to give real case studies of AALs…

Shift, the boy January 7, 2026

A Microsoft obsession of thinking their (fantasy) customers would really love News.

Product managers are hallucinating and everyone (including me) complained about it. And on this post, I really want to show an example one important fantasy customer that Microsoft really wanted to enforce for years. (Spoiler: this has been ongoing for more than a decade). First, I…

Shift, the boy January 5, 2026

Product managers are hallucinating on their consumers. Leave them alone.

Executive Summary: Updated 2026-01-08: Added sections describing the Disney Adult Effect. It has been years since the news that people surprisingly decided not to upgrade their PCs to Windows 11. Or that Edge browser that now shares some code with Google Chrome. Or Copilot+ PCs…