As I get older I find myself more and more looking for utility. When I was younger, I’d early-adopt everything without regard to whether it added anything important to my life or whether it was fundamentally useful. As I get older and notice time catching up, I am more ruthless about cutting things that “everyone does” but don’t add any value. Pop culture, sports, social media, gossip, dozens of chat apps. They don’t really add more than they take away in terms of time.

My kid is bored and has all the time in the world. She’ll do the early adopting for now.