A Complaint Should Know What It Wants
A culture of toughness suggests not complaining, so as not to look weak. That ban usually produces not fortitude but people who stay silent until they blow up. A complaint…
Life is worth more than property
The morality of disaster says things are worth nothing, life is what matters. In a direct choice that is true, but a house, documents and savings hold safety, memory and…
CPM S30V, S35VN, S45VN: Steel Invented Specifically for Knives
Almost all knife steel is borrowed. It was developed for bearings, dies, cutting tools, medicine and aviation, and knifemakers then took whatever was at hand and happened to fit. The…
The Fish Outside the School
A group saves you effort. If everyone else is running, there is probably a reason. If everyone picks one road, it may well be safer. Following the majority is often…
Ten Years Later
An event that fills the whole inner screen today may be one line a few years from now. Daniel Gilbert and his colleagues studied “affective forecasting” — the ability to…
If you get lost
Hiking folklore offers a simple direction: go down to water, climb higher, or follow the river. Universal advice sounds confident precisely because it takes no account of the actual terrain.…