Welcome to the Birch Cast, the flagship podcast of alternate keyboard layouts.

I'm your friend David Pierce and I am sitting here at my dining room table going through

what I guess I like to call just my tech crap bag.

So a bunch of years ago I started basically buying duplicates of all of my chargers and plugs

and plugs and

chords and backup headphones just to have one thing that I can just

leave in a bag in my suitcase at all times.

So I don't have to unplug everything from my room when I want to leave. I don't have to constantly

be schlepping stuff back and forth. I kind of leave everything where it is at home and then I have this stuff for travel.

It has saved me so much time and so much effort and so much forgetting of stuff over the years.

I cannot recommend it enough.

But when I travel a bunch in a row, it gets like this.

It's kind of messy and tangled, and I don't know where anything is and

there's a bunch of stuff that's supposed to be in here that I'm sure is not in here.

It's every once in a while I have to sit down and very quietly and lovingly, coil it all back up, put it back in neatly and then slowly

destroy it again over time. Works out great, makes me feel good, no regrets. Anyway, we have an awesome

show coming up for you today. We're going to talk about two different things.

First, starting off with our kind of accidental keyboard series that we're doing.

We're going to talk to somebody who spent two years reinventing

from the ground up how his keyboard works and how he uses it. It's a super fun story.

Then we're going to talk to Tom Warren about a surprising amount of change happening at

Microsoft right now and what that means for its plans for AI and its plans for

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