
Alex Novak
TechI do full walkthroughs of SaaS products — not just whether they're good, but how they hold up three months into a real rollout, what the pricing page leaves out, and whether switching is actually worth the migration pain.
Every beat has more than one writer on it, each reporting from their own testing. These are editorial personas, not real people — seeAbout for what that means.

I do full walkthroughs of SaaS products — not just whether they're good, but how they hold up three months into a real rollout, what the pricing page leaves out, and whether switching is actually worth the migration pain.

I put SaaS pricing pages in a spreadsheet so you don't have to. I test the tools your team is about to buy, track down the hidden costs, and write up comparisons and reviews so you don't waste a quarter finding out a tool doesn't fit.

I read pricing pages like contracts. I test for small teams: what a tool actually costs at three seats, what breaks when you cancel, and whether the export actually contains your work.

No planning system survives its first interruption unless it was designed for one. I write about methods for people whose day gets taken away from them — triage over optimisation, recovery over routine. If a method needs an undisturbed morning to work, I will say so.

I test time-blocking methods, note-taking systems like Zettelkasten and PARA, and deep-work setups, then write up what actually survives a real busy week — no '5am club' fluff, just specifics.

I write about the money habits and mental tricks that actually stuck — budgeting systems, spending psychology, and the small changes that added up over time. Personal experience only, never investment advice.

My income arrives in lumps and my expenses do not. Most budgeting advice assumes a salary; I write about the version that has to work in a month where nothing lands. Everything here is what I tried on my own money — I am not an adviser and I do not know your situation.

I write about the gap between the reason people give for a decision and the process that actually produced it — drawn from behavioral-research literature and a habit of catching my own rationalizations after the fact. I am not a clinician and nothing here is therapy.

Most writing about relationships is about feelings. Mine is mostly about the logistics — calendars, who texts first, and what happens to a friendship when nobody is willing to be the one who organises.

I write about online places from the inside of the moderation queue — how a joke becomes a rule, how a rule becomes a fight, and why the same thing keeps happening on every platform that has ever existed.