When Your ‘Intelligent’ Devices Outwit You
I never intended to live in the future. One futuristic device after the other, step by step, pushed me to the point of arguing with...
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Tech Support Scripts That Never Address Your Problem
I wasn’t planning on calling tech support yesterday. I really wasn’t. But my printer decided to have what I can only describe as a nervous...
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Streaming Service Shuffle: The Paradox of Too Many Options
Last Tuesday, my plan was quite simple. I finished work, sank into my armchair, and settled in for a show to help me unwind. Little...
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Living With the Knowledge That My Cells Dont Know Theyre Part of Me
It hit me somewhere between the third and fourth hour of staring at cell cultures under my modified microscope. I was tracking mitochondrial activity in...
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Why Ive Started Measuring Conversations in Information Density
I’ve started implementing this radical new system in my life, and it’s completely changing how I approach human interaction. Look, as someone who has dedicated...
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What Happened When I Tried to Calculate the Butterfly Effect of My Sneezes
It started with a sneeze that knocked over my coffee mug on a Tuesday morning. Not a particularly dramatic sneeze by most standards—my personal best...
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I Blame Bluey for My Children’s Unrealistic Expectations of My Parenting Abilities
So there I was yesterday afternoon, crouched behind my sofa at 3:47 PM, trying to eat a chocolate biscuit in secret while my four-year-old wandered...
