My friend sent me a video at 11 PM on a Tuesday with zero context. Just a TikTok of someone doing this wild, rapid-fire footwork — thumbs hooked near their waistband, hips loose, feet barely touching the ground before they were off again. The caption just said “try this.” I watched it four times in…
That was the reality I walked into every Monday morning for years. Third period, 30 students, mixed abilities, a couple of kids on IEPs, a few whose first language wasn’t English, and one boy in the back who I swear came to class purely for the air conditioning. When I first came across the concept…
I’ll be honest — the first time I came across the word “Lidarmos,” I genuinely thought it was a typo. A colleague sent me a link during a project meeting about mapping technology, and I almost scrolled past it. Glad I didn’t. We were working on a site survey for a construction project — one…
So there I was, staring at a completely white screen on my phone — no error, no message, just… nothing. I’d installed AppBlock to help me stay off social media during work hours, and instead of showing me a helpful “you’ve been blocked” page, the app was serving me a blank HTML canvas. Not exactly…
Three years ago, I stood in my living room surrounded by bags I hadn’t unpacked from a move six months prior, a bookshelf that was essentially a dumping ground, and a kitchen where I couldn’t find my own spatula. The place didn’t feel like home. It felt like a storage unit I slept in. Sound…
A few months back, my nephew — who’s doing his undergraduate thesis in materials engineering — texted me out of nowhere: “Have you heard about Nelonium? My professor mentioned it and I can’t find anything solid.” I hadn’t. But the name stuck with me. It sounded legitimate enough — like something you’d find wedged between…
My mate Danny is the kind of person who will sign up for literally anything if a friend mentions it in passing. Last year he texted me a screenshot of a site called MSB247 and asked, “Have you heard of this? Someone in my fantasy league uses it for live betting.” I hadn’t. So I…
A few weeks ago, a colleague dropped the word “dolfier” into a Slack message like it was something everyone already knew. The context was a strategy conversation — we were talking about how our small content team could scale without losing what made our work feel distinct. He typed something like: “This is basically a…
A few months back I was down a rabbit hole of travel planning for a budget trip — trying to figure out cheap accommodation options in a city I’d never visited before. You know how it goes. You start on Reddit, bounce to a forum, click a link in someone’s comment, and suddenly you’re on…
Somewhere around 2022, I bricked my old Samsung Galaxy A51. Not completely bricked — it still turned on — but I’d sideloaded a modded version of a popular game from some random site, and within 48 hours my battery was draining in real-time, random apps were opening by themselves, and my phone was generating data…
