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I have a perhaps inappropriate, anthropomorphic relationship with whatever robot vacuum is running in my house. No matter how much trouble they cause me—if they get trapped in the ledge by the fireplace or lost under the couch—I never forget that it’s here to help me battle the chaotic mess …

Within a few minutes of arriving at the WIRED offices in San Francisco, Matic cofounder Mehul Nariyawala brings up the classic Paul Graham piece on schlep blindness. The essay talks about how engineers will often shrink away from starting a company to tackle a very commonly understood problem simply because …