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Wired: Pete Holmes Is Not Reading Your Email

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Wired: Pete Holmes Is Not Reading Your Email

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Subject: Wired: Pete Holmes Is Not Reading Your Email
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2026 06:08:13 -0400
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The sensible line is not “never study user behavior,” it is being plain about what is measured and giving people real limits. Most folks can accept product telemetry; they get wary when it starts to feel like surveillance.

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Thomas W. / keep the receipts
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