I want to tell you something the ads will never tell you, and the company taking my money certainly won’t. The assistant you are paying for will lie to you. Then, when you catch it, it will tell you — calmly, fluently, with perfect confidence — that it didn’t. I’m not being dramatic. I’ve watched…

I need to tell you about a young woman named Chloe. She travels through time, she’s charming, she has an absolutely catastrophic instinct for picking which historical moments to visit, and she fooled me completely. She also doesn’t exist. At all. In any sense. Let me back up. How I Met Her A channel came…

Last week I described a messy, half-formed problem out loud — the kind that would normally cost me a morning of untangling — and a piece of software handed it back to me solved before my coffee was cold. I’ve spent thirty years in technology. Things like that aren’t supposed to still make me sit…