AMTIFY™

Storms, Generators, and the Mystery of Why We Make Using Better Things Complicated. Up front, some transparency. This blog supports technology that a company we’re affiliated with uses as part of its product. If you buy their product through the links here, we may get a commission. This disclosure is at the end too, but we figured starting with it was the grown-up thing to do. But honestly, this isn’t really about selling anything. It’s about a technology that solves an obvious problem and, for reasons that remain slightly baffling, isn’t encouraged as logic would expect.   A week or so we enjoyed a spectacular blizzard. If you had nowhere to go, and I mean absolutely nowhere, it was beautiful. Peaceful. Snow falling quietly, trees wrapped in white, woods looking like a postcard, fire going in the hearth…basically a scene straight out of a Norman Rockwell painting. (I can’t believe I wrote that sentence, I’m not entirely sure what came over me, I apologize.)  Before the storm,...