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About The Shortcut
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The Shortcut is the #1 consumer tech Substack, read by more than 150,000 people who want to get smarter about tech in about seven minutes a day.
We started as a newsletter. Now we're also the fastest way to answer the question every buyer asks: is it actually good, and what should I pay?
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Who we are
The Shortcut is run by Matt Swider, a longtime tech journalist and reviewer, alongside Kevin K Lee, Adam Vjestica and Max Buondonno. We review gear ourselves, and we credit the reviewers whose work we round up. People first.
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