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Michael Sheehan

San Francisco, United States, Walnut Creek
As seen in: HighTechDad, Medium, Forbes, The Washington Post, Wiley Online Library, Yahoo Singapore, New York Daily News, POLITICO, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, Medscape and
OG verified! Creator, Writer, Marketer. Founder: HighTechDad; tech #influencer - where tech & fatherhood collide. Sr Mgr @appdynamics - Enjoy my opinions!
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SofaBaton U3 Bluetooth Remote Control Review: 1 Remote, Finally Done Right

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By Michael Sheehan
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I have too many TVs. I know that. My wife knows that. My kids definitely know that because they keep asking to take one for their apartments. Every one of those TVs has at least one device connected to it, and for years, that meant every end table, nightstand, and drawer in our house had its own little collection of remotes. The bedroom TV had a TV remote and an Apple TV remote. The living room had more than I want to admit. You know the drawer. Every house has the drawer.
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MSI Raider 16 Max HX Review: Running Local AI on a Gaming Laptop with RTX 5070 Ti and 12GB VRAM

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By Michael Sheehan
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I’ll be straight with you: I don’t really game anymore. I used to, back in the day; I put serious hours into Halo, spent a lot of time playing Quake, and went through a good stretch of Mario Kart battles with my kids when they were little. But that was a while ago. So, when MSI reached out about their Raider 16 Max HX, a flagship gaming laptop with an NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti and 12GB of dedicated GPU memory, saying yes might have seemed like an odd call. It wasn’t. Because I didn’t want it for gaming.
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I Watched AI Search Engines Erode My Site Traffic for a Year. Here’s What I Built to Fight Back.

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By Michael Sheehan
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For the past year, I’ve been watching traffic on HighTechDad decline in ways I couldn’t fully explain through traditional SEO logic. Rankings were holding. Content quality hadn’t changed. And my Domain Authority remains high (I get cross-linking requests weekly.) I’ve been running my site for over 20 years, and I know what a Google algorithm hit looks like. This was something different, and quieter. And I knew what it was.
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