Kate Cox

And it kind of worked.

That's weird.

That's just a weird outcome that happened along the way of the Trump administration being a political force that started on cell phones.

So there's some combination there.

The thing I will caution you about and I will caution everybody about is if you make your focus relentlessly that, you will only attract an audience of people who care about that.

You will narrow the amount of impact that you can have.

And so we have a big audience of people who do like technology, who do think it should be used for good things, who are excited about the craziest Wi-Fi router on display at CES.

I'm one of those people.

We should do a lot of decoder episodes about the Raspberry Pi that runs my smart home.

Like I would love to do that.

I think the trick is taking that audience that sees the benefit of technology, who loves it for its own sake, and saying these are the consequences.

These are the implications of the choices that are being made by the companies that are developing the technologies that you love.

And there's a lot there.

I'll give a really dumb example.

And this is the very small thing that was the genesis of all of our policy coverage here at The Verge.

Do you remember the iPhone 3GS and the iPhone 4 had bad service?

They dropped a lot of calls.

So we were running Engadget at the time.

And you're like, how does the iPhone drop calls?

There's an antenna gate.