
- Oct 29, 2017
- 2 min
A year living social trends: Automate your life, newborn babies
I recently got to implement all my hard-won knowledge from having one child, by spawning another. Hurrah! Now, this post won’t go into raptures about how exceptional she is (take it as read), but a key part of the anxiety around a newborn baby is the lack of certainty over what they’re doing. You lack the feedback older infants give you, and yet you’re very keen they feed, sleep etc ‘normally’. This is, in fact, an area one can automate. With both children, we’ve used this ap

- Oct 23, 2017
- 4 min
Living social trends: Automating your life, another 10 days in…
After my initial enthusiasm and all the benefits I gained from using Swiftkey or IFTTT (read my first blog post here), I must conclude that not every robot works to make my life easier. Two weeks into the ‘automating my life’ experiment I’d describe my experience as follows: I love the work productivity hacks and my new automated workout or dietary plan, but it is also quite annoying when your phone notifications just tripled, your Facebook messenger talks to you 5 times a da