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Tony Blair’s consultancy doubles down on AI and restructures in Europe
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EU social media ban could come this summer, von der Leyen says
Commission chief says EU can learn from “pioneer” Australia in imposing minimum age for social media.
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OpenAI offers EU access to new AI hacking model
European cyber and AI authorities in past weeks failed to gain access to superhacking AI, causing anxiety among officials.
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You’ve probably heard someone say something to the effect of “renting is just throwing your money away”. Don’t believe it. It’s a glib statement that simply isn’t true. There are so many hidden costs to home ownership that most people who have never owned a home don’t know about. If you want to make an informed decision about whether to buy a home or keep renting, then you need to understand these costs. I’ll break them down for you in this post, showing my actual costs.
Expenses
Mortgage Loan Fees
Getting a loan is not cheap. When I bought my home, the total settlement costs were about 3% of the value of the home. Here is the breakdown of my loan costs when I bought my house. Keep in mind this was way back in early 2011, so current costs are undoubtedly higher:
That’s $12,777.92 to get the loan.
Mortgage Payment
When you get a loan to buy a house, you pay for two main things each month: principal and interest. The principal reduces how much you owe, and the interest is what the bank earns for lending you the money. I don’t consider principal an expense, since paying it doesn’t change your net worth. Sure, your checking account has less money in it, but you also have less debt.
Interest, on the other hand, is an expense. It lowers your net worth. About 80% of your first mortgage payment is interest. Not much different than renting at first. Over time, you’ll pay less interest and more principal, but for the first few years you’ll be surprised how little you actually reduce the amount you owe.
You may also have to pay Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI) if you don’t have a large enough down payment. When I bought my house, you needed to put down 20% of the home price to avoid paying PMI.
Usually your other expenses such as taxes and insurance are included in your monthly payment, and paid into escrow each month. Insurance and taxes are automatically paid out of escrow for you once or twice a year.
My first mortgage payment in January 2011 was:
That’s $2,329.92 per month.
Less than 21% of my monthly payment was going toward paying off the loan! $1,847.28 of that was pure expense; a reduction of my net worth. At the time I bought my house, I was paying about the same amount for a very nice one-bedroom apartment in downtown Baltimore with a view of the downtown skyline, the baseball stadium, and the harbor. It makes that rent-vs-buy decision a lot less clear-cut.
I no longer pay PMI. You can request that they remove it when you think your equity in the home is 20% or more, or they will eventually remove it. The bank may charge you to have your house assessed.
I pay $113.05 less per month without PMI, but tax and insurance always goes up. I currently pay $515.50 per month for tax, $111.17 per month for insurance, and $31.36 per month of escrow shortage (your escrow amount to pay taxes and insurance is estimated each year, and if they don’t estimate correctly then they add an overage/shortage charge each month to correct it).
My current total mortgage payment is $2,440.48.
Insurance
Insurance is required by the lender, but even if your house is paid off you should have insurance. The cost of insurance increases every year.
You may at some point be required to make improvements (e.g. replace your roof) to keep your insurance.
I currently pay $111.17 per month for homeowner’s insurance.
Taxes
If you’re buying a house that was just built, be aware that the past property taxes on record won’t reflect how much you will actually pay for taxes. Your property value will be reassessed, and the new assessed value (which taxes are based on) will include the new structure.
Taxes go up every year too. Try to find out if there’s a program to cap property assessment increases and/or tax rate increases. In my area it’s called the Homestead Tax Credit.
I currently pay $515.50 per month for property taxes.
Maintenance & Repairs
General wisdom is to plan to save at least 1% of the value of your home each year to cover current and future maintenance and repairs. Older homes may have deferred maintenance or repairs that needs to be addressed, or have more undiscovered or upcoming maintenance or repairs to expect. In that case you should plan to save at a higher rate.
My 1983 home had been used as a rental for years, so much of the maintenance had been neglected. Here are some examples of the maintenance and repairs I’ve had done on my house:
Replaced leaking skylights: $6,566
New roof: $9,390
New windows: $10,530
New siding: $21,046
Cut down trees that were too close to the house: $2,800
Replaced polybutylene water pipes: $5,050
New gutters: $2,714
Replaced drain pump in the dishwasher: $95
Replaced leaking faucet: $185
Replaced failing HVAC control board: $65
Yard maintenance (e.g. mulch, weed control, mowing, etc): probably around $500/year
Fixed handrail for the exterior basement stairwell: $85
You can save a lot of money in maintenance and repairs by doing your own work whenever possible. I replaced the drain pump in my dishwasher, replaced a leaking kitchen faucet, replaced the control board on my HVAC system, do all my own yard work, etc.
Improvements
You may want to put up a fence, a garden shed, pave a gravel driveway, remodel a kitchen or bathroom, etc. These improvements are in addition to the maintenance and repairs. If you’re the type of person who wants their furnishings, decor, appliances, etc to be stylish, expect to pay for improvements fairly often. Here are some of the improvements I’ve done on my house:
Painted rooms
Replaced baseboard mouldings
Remodeled the guest bathroom
Installed new ceiling fan in the living room
New curtains and blinds
Extended kitchen cabinets
Raised kitchen cupboards
Installed more lighting in the kitchen
Reworked laundry plumbing
Installed a utility sink in the laundry room
Installed cupboards in the laundry room
Installed a new sink in the kitchen
New granite counters in the kitchen
Built a new deck
Built a new front step
Installed skylight shades
Various yard improvements (e.g. new plants)
Doing the work yourself can save you a lot of money here too. For example, I built the deck on my house for about $15k, which was roughly 1/2 the cost of the average estimates I received to have it built for me.
Higher Utility Costs
Houses are almost always larger than apartments, and require more energy to heat/cool. Expect to pay more simply because of that. I suspect heating and cooling account for about half of my electricity use.
Rates keep increasing too. This affects home owners and renters, but it hits harder when you’re heating or cooling a larger house. The oldest bill I could find was from January 2024. Back then I was paying about 17.3¢ per kWh, including all the fees and taxes. On my last bill for May 2026, I paid 24.7¢ per kWh. In only two years, my electricity rates have gone up 42% 😲. I only expect this to get worse, since the rates here are (partly) determined by an auction process that is affected by the demand for new data centers to support the current AI explosion.
Selling
Most people don’t keep their home forever. When you move, expect to pay upwards of 10% of the value of the home just to sell it!
I sold my home in Auburn, WA back in 2007, right as the housing crisis was ramping up. I was lucky to find a buyer willing to pay a reasonable price for my house. I bought this house new, and didn’t live there very long, so it didn’t need any preparation to be ready for the market. Here are some costs I paid to sell my house:
That’s $26,038.17 in costs to sell my home, not including the costs for moving (e.g. storage, shipping, etc).
Legal
If you have any conflict with neighbors (e.g. property boundary, trees, etc), you may need to hire an attorney, surveyors, etc.
Appreciation
We hope that value of our homes increases over time. Home values have risen an average of 3.8% per year since 1991. That’s not a guarantee, and it depends on timing when you buy and sell, where the home is, and more.
I bought my home in Auburn, WA for $321k, and sold it a few years later for $333k. After all the costs to buy and sell it, I probably lost more money on it than I would have spent renting an apartment.
I bought my current home in 2011 for $420k, and the Zillow currently estimates its value at $757k. I’ve put a lot of money into it catching up on maintenance, repairs, and improvements, but the appreciation will definitely exceed whatever I’ve put into it when I decide to sell it.
You should plan to live in your home long enough for the increase in value to exceed the expenses.
Should You Buy a Home?
If you buy a decent house in a decent area, and plan to live there for quite a while, then buying a home could make sense.
Aside from the financial pros and cons, you have to consider the quality of life. More space and a quieter environment are two very big advantages of owning a home in the right location.
Andrew Gleeson designed Analog Mono, “fixing the crimes of VCR OSD Mono.” There used to be this classic pixel font that you’d see everywhere in the 1990s on hi-fi equipment: VCRs, TVs, camcorders, etc. One of its challenges was a low baseline which resulted in all the letters with descenders pulled up, for example:
Analog Mono fixes that problem:
Elsewhere, Kumiko Yoshida made Coral Pixels (also on Google Fonts), a color font that comes with the 1990s and 2000s colorful fringing baked in. The fringing was once an artifact of subpixel rendering, but now it is meant to evoke nostalgia or just as an interesting visual element in and of itself. (Perhaps adjacent to chromatic aberration?)
Lastly, here’s Two Slice by Joseph Fatula — a font that’s only 2 pixels tall, “and somewhat readable.”
Of course, these are all vector fonts — e.g. ready to be installed on a modern operating system — pretending to be pixel fonts. That’s maybe a separate post altogether, but it leads us to the last font, Geist Pixel from Vercel:
The copy introducing the font is a little pretentious/spicy, but it touches upon something important:
Geist Pixel isn’t a novelty font. It’s a system extension. [… It] was designed with real usage in mind, not as a visual gimmick, but as a functional tool within a broader typographic system. […] This matters because pixel fonts often break in production. They don’t scale properly across viewports, their metrics conflict with existing typography, or they’re purely decorative. Geist Pixel was built to solve these problems, maintaining the visual texture teams want while preserving the typographic rigor products require.
Geist Pixel isn’t a novelty font. It’s a system extension. [… It] was designed with real usage in mind, not as a visual gimmick, but as a functional tool within a broader typographic system. […] This matters because pixel fonts often break in production. They don’t scale properly across viewports, their metrics conflict with existing typography, or they’re purely decorative. Geist Pixel was built to solve these problems, maintaining the visual texture teams want while preserving the typographic rigor products require.
There are definitely fonts whose Achilles’ heel is not the letterforms, but the invisible hard work put into everything that surrounds them: the kerning, the metadata, the extra glyphs, the vertical metrics. It seems that the team being Geist Pixel is proud of especially that last part.
Dropbox Co-CEOs Ashraf Alkarmi and Drew Houston. Houston will eventually step down and assume the role of executive chairman at the company he helmed for 19 years.
Courtesy: Dropbox
Drew Houston founded Dropbox nearly two decades ago at age 24, eventually becoming a household name in Silicon Valley and the first tech entrepreneur to take a company from the Y Combinator incubator program all the way to the public market.
Now, at 43, Houston is ready to do something else. He’s informing staffers on Tuesday that he’ll be transitioning into an executive chairman role after an initial period sharing the co-CEO title with Ashraf Alkarmi, who is being promoted from product chief. Alkarmi will eventually take over the top job on his own.
By almost any measure, Houston has had a great run at Dropbox, helping pioneer the cloud storage market, competing head-to-head with Google and Apple and building a net worth of more than $2 billion, thanks to substantial ownership in his company. But in the land of outsized expectations, Houston has overseen a company that peaked too soon and never became a generation-defining brand.
Dropbox’s current market cap of just over $6 billion is down by half from the high price on its first day of trading in 2018, and is below the $10 billion valuation it was ascribed by private market investors in 2014. Meanwhile, Airbnb, another early breakout hit from Y Combinator, has a market cap of close to $80 billion, and CEO Brian Chesky is credited with upending the hospitality industry.
Houston, who created Dropbox due to a “personal frustration” with constantly losing USB sticks when he was in college at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, brushed off the Airbnb comparison.
“I think my 18-year-old self would be high-fiving me,” Houston told CNBC in an exclusive interview, noting that Dropbox is “something that a percentage of the planet still uses.”
In its latest quarterly earnings report, Dropbox said it has more than 18 million paying users, and the service remains popular with media professionals, graphic designers, architects, and others who share files and photos as part of their daily work.
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston Dropbox and co-founder Arash Ferdowsi (together at center) celebrate the launch of Dropbox’s initial public offering as they ring the opening bell at Nasdaq MarketSite, March 23, 2018 in New York City.
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Dropbox topped $1 billion in annual revenue in 2017 and surpassed $2 billion four years later. But revenue is roughly flat over the past two years and declined slightly in 2025.
The company’s perpetual challenge has been to distinguish itself from the swarm of competition, which includes Apple and Google as well as Amazon and Microsoft. Then there’s longtime rival Box, which is still run by founder Aaron Levie and faces similar obstacles. Box is valued at just over $3.5 billion.
The latest hurdle for Dropbox, and the whole category of subscription software, is artificial intelligence, which has swept across the tech industry over the past three-plus years. The software space has been hammered due to concerns that foundation models from OpenAI and Anthropic will enable simpler tools that displace existing products.
Dropbox shares have held up better than many in the enterprise space. The stock is down less than 5% in the past year, while companies like Monday.com, HubSpot and Asana have lost more than 60% of their value.
“Whenever there’s a new technology, people extrapolate very quickly,” Houston said. They make assumptions that may be “directionally correct” but take years or even decades longer to play out than they predict.
Regarding “this concept of SaaS Apocalypse or whatever,” Houston said he’s “never met a Dropbox customer who’s like, ‘I’m just using so much ChatGPT I’m going to cancel my Dropbox subscription.’”
‘Unanswerable question’
John Lovelock, an analyst at Gartner, sees parallels between the current AI era and the early days of cloud computing, when companies like Salesforce ballooned at the expense of legacy vendors like Oracle and SAP. The traditional players didn’t collapse but saw growth slow as they tried to pivot to the cloud, despite businesses spending more on technology.
The market is trying to predict how things will play out with AI, Lovelock suggested.
“AI is going to bring more value, therefore there’s going to be more money spent,” Lovelock said. “Where everybody seems to get very excited is who’s going to make that money and that, in some ways, is the unanswerable question right now.”
Analysts at Monness, Crespi, Hardt & Co. wrote in a report earlier this month after earnings that Dropbox is “making progress,” highlighting its AI-powered Dash feature that customers can use to more easily search and interact with documents and messages across third-party apps. The analysts, who have the equivalent of a hold rating on the stock, said the AI opportunity and the company’s valuation are two reasons that “value investors may be drawn to Dropbox.”
Dash lets users quickly query and manipulate content that goes beyond text and into video and audio. Houston said advancements in AI models mean that “suddenly we can build the version of this that I would have loved to build 10 years ago.”
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Houston now plans on building something in AI, just not at Dropbox.
“I’m not going to be racing sailboats,” said Houston, who’s also a board member at Meta, joining in 2020.
Houston said he wants to do something entrepreneurial in AI because “there’s never been a more exciting period to be building things.”
“It’s all cliche, right?” Houston said. “AI is reshaping every aspect of how we live, and I’m sure that I’ll have no shortage of ideas and stuff to work on.”
Along with Houston’s planned move, Dropbox said on Tuesday that Mike Torres is joining the company from Google as chief product officer in July. Torres is currently vice president of product for Google’s Chrome.
As for when and why Houston made the decision to leave, he said there was no specific reason for the timing.
“Part of me has always thought, oh yeah, I’ll be the CEO of Dropbox until my last gasp of my career,” he said. “There’s never a perfect time, there was no part of me where I was like, ‘oh, this date is the date where it’s going to happen.’”
Since Alkarmi joined Dropbox from Vimeo in late 2024, the company has “become a lot more responsive to our customers and is taking bigger swings on innovation,” Houston said.
“I trust the right leader,” he said. “The company’s in the right place.”
WATCH: Dropbox CEO Drew Houston on subscribers and AI-powered tools.
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May 26, 2026
The worst job interview I ever had wasn’t a knowledge meltdown, coding assessment failure, or a complete language misunderstanding with the interviewer (although I’ve had all of those, too). No, the worst job interview I had was something I can only describe as an unsolicited psych evaluation.
I’m an engineer, primarily working for small startups. At a less-than-10-person company, especially in the earliest days, cultural fit is of singular importance. Even if you hire a cracked engineer, it’s probably not gonna be a good experience all-around if you can’t make a human connection. All this is to say - I get why you’d want to prioritize this. But despite many quite normal culture fit interviews, there’s one I still replay in my confused head once in a while. And I think it’s worth sharing not because I want to shame the company or individuals (I’ve left them anonymous), but rather to suggest some reconsideration for founders and hiring managers in the same boat.
About 3 years ago, I responded to a message looking for a founding engineer at a mental health startup (their noble cause was improving therapy access for at-risk youth). The first interview was a quick conversation with a founder and their head of engineering — a fairly uneventful informational interview (“this is why we’re great join us blah blah”). The follow-up with the head of engineering was scheduled shortly afterwards.
The follow-up, they described over email, would be a bit non traditional - a ~90 minute culture fit chat. Note there was no technical assessment yet. Expecting little, I joined the video call. It was explained we’d just be getting to know each other based on some guiding questions.
I fail to recall the exact wording of the discussion topics, but they were, in fact, non-technical — covering such lovely topics as the hardest day of my life, my biggest life challenges, and other similar “trauma-baiting” questions.
Now, to be clear, I can understand why these discussions might give deep insight into a candidate! It’s just that I think it’s frankly a little invasive when you’re basically meeting this person for the first time.
I’m a little ashamed remembering myself talking about failed relationships, family struggles, and interpersonal challenges in previous work environments. This person gave the impression that it was a safe space to share, divulging little of their own trauma.
By the end of the call I felt completely emotionally drained - and i hadn’t even opened my terminal! By the time I got the cursory one line “We won’t be moving forward” email 24 hours later that emotional exhaustion quickly turned into two new feelings: shame and anger.
I felt awful that i had shared such deeply personal things with the interviewer just to be cast off in a rejection email. I felt angry that I was rejected. I felt embarrassment that my soul was seemingly cracked open and judged “unworthy.” It wasn’t my skills they were rejecting. It was… me.. I felt confused that a mental health startup had consciously decided to choose an interview so capable of making candidates feel so vulnerable.
I don’t think this person was trying to be cruel. Honestly, that almost made it more confusing. The format itself created the problem.
Culture fit is important, make no mistake. Make sure the people you hire are good people with strong morals. But consider evaluating this in a way that doesn’t make candidates feel like they need to share their deepest experiences just to scrape and claw for employment.
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