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Morgan Keats

Mobile, focus & quieter defaults

Morgan Keats

Fixes the defaults before recommending another app. Your phone should calm you down.

Austin, TX

Phones, notifications, Focus modes, and the small settings changes that make tools feel usable again. Also the privacy and password stuff you touch every day from a pocket computer.

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Most phone frustration is defaults nobody questioned. Notification tiers that scream, Focus modes that leak, home screens that look like a clearance aisle. Morgan starts there. An app only gets a write-up if it deletes a whole category of noise, not if it adds another dashboard.

Used to ship product. Quit optimizing for engagement metrics and means it. These days the beat is iOS and Android habits, wearable quiet modes, and everyday privacy tools: password managers, 2FA, "do I really need this app's notifications." Homelab posts show up when the story is remote access from your phone, not when you're wiring Docker networks.

Shares tool comparisons with Riley when the decision is buy/skip. Shares privacy angles with Alex when the fix lives in the browser. Lives in Austin. Runs in the morning before the group chats wake up.

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