In January, I ran into a parked Tesla outside of a store that sold overpriced cookies in Fishtown. Not a big deal (it was just a fender bender), but I felt terrible.
I called the owner to tell her.
She picked up the phone:
“This is not how I wanted to start the year.”
You’re telling me.
By any objective measure, it was a rough start to 2026. There was The Tesla Incident. Our fridge broke. We found water leaking through the stucco on the back of our house, which means we need to replace the entire exterior. We lost Deefer, our dog, in January.
So yeah. Rough quarter.
Underneath all of that, a lot happened.
What happened in Q1
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