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After listening to my son try and convince me that he absolutely needed whatever the latest toy was that he was fixated on, I replied with, “That sounds like a want, not a need. You can use your money to buy it.”He told me he didn’t have enough cash. At…

Fifteen years ago, I was an out-of-place finance reporter in San Francisco, trying to reinvent myself as a tech journalist. That’s when I scored a lucky meeting with Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers, two former Apple engineers with a wild idea to make thermostats sexy.Last week, I went to see…