Things worth knowing, explained plainly
Navigation goes wrong slowly. Almost nobody takes one dramatic wrong turn. What happens is that you stop paying attention on an obvious path, the cloud comes down, and twenty minutes later you are standing somewhere that does not…
Read the article →Insurance is one of the few things people buy without reading, renew without rereading, and then have to understand perfectly on the worst day of their year. A claim is a reading comprehension exercise conducted under stress, usually…
Read the article →The category has a bad habit. A company sells a device, runs the servers it depends on for a few years, gets acquired or loses interest, and switches them off. The hardware on your wall is fine. The…
Read the article →The most useful knife advice is unglamorous: the one you already own is probably fine, and it is probably dull. If you are genuinely buying, though, a handful of things decide whether a knife suits you, and price…
Read the article →A fridge is where food goes to be forgotten. Half a bunch of cilantro liquefying in the drawer, a container of something from a week and a half ago that nobody will open, three jars of the same…
Read the article →A computer rarely gets slower in the literal sense. The processor is doing exactly what it did on the first day. What changes is everything around it: more software running unasked, a drive with no room to work…
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