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I bought an Apple Watch right before moving to D.C., not too long after switching to iPhone. Thought it would help with biking/walking directions, step and workout tracking, and D.C.’s very different weather.

Turn-by-turn on your wrist is pretty nice, but so is looking up at street signs and using your senses. It was neat to see my calories burned after long workouts. But I mostly used that to justify eating, like, a whole Wegmans medium sub.

I spent a *ton* of time fine-tuning profiles and notifications, trying to avoid getting pulled out of every moment because “Slack is happening!” or “REI is having a summer sale!”. But the tuning never ends. You either pick 5 emergency apps and that’s it, or you’re an unpaid dispatcher.