Joanna Stern Launches ‘New Things’ ⇥ thenewthings.com

Joanna Stern left the Wall Street Journal and is going independent with her new thing called New Things, and I like this overarching editorial question:

But while writing my new book, I AM NOT A ROBOT — where I used AI in as many parts of my life as possible for a year — I realized Is this a good product? isn’t the main question to ask anymore. The bigger question is: Who is this tech for? Wall Street? Greedy CEOs? AI agents? Actual humans? I want it to be for humans. And I want to cover it that way too: as a human living with it, using it, testing it and trying to make sense of what it’s doing to our lives.

After all, tech is not really about products and services; it never has been. It is what they do for us and what they — or the companies that created them — expect of us.