Remote work has made engineering teams worse, and the bit that broke is the part nobody wrote down: juniors learning by overhearing.

AI is going to destroy more jobs than it makes. Every previous wave moved people up a ladder; this one is coming for the rungs.

T20 made Test cricket better, not worse, and the people who say otherwise have not watched a fourth innings run chase lately.

Films are too long. Not artistically, logistically — I have children and a bus to catch.

Telling people to "just move somewhere cheaper" ignores that cheap places are cheap because the work isn't there, which is the entire thing you needed the money for.

Music got worse when it got easy to make — not the songs, the filter. When a studio cost real money somebody had to believe in you before you got in the room.

We know more about the surface of Mars than the floor of our own ocean and that is a genuinely strange set of priorities.

Job hopping is the only reliable pay rise and companies have nobody to blame but themselves. Three percent internally, twenty percent to leave, every year, forever.

Genuine question: has anyone actually changed their mind because of something they read online? Not softened, not "considered" — changed.

I miss being unreachable and I am aware I could simply turn the phone off, and I am also aware that I will not.

Most people who say they "believe in science" mean they trust institutions, which is a completely different thing and much easier to break.

Cricket is the only sport where you can go for lunch, come back, and nothing has happened, and that is a feature.

Every interface is now designed to be learned once and never thought about, which is wonderful until the day it does something you did not ask for.

Ask a city what it wants and it says better public transport. Ask about the bus and the room goes quiet. The bus is the only bit that is affordable, deliverable this decade and actually useful to people without money — and it is the one thing no city gets excited about announcing.

Being good at your job and being good at describing your job are almost completely unrelated skills, and only one of them gets promoted.

Group chats replaced forums and we lost the thing where a stranger's answer from four years ago was still there when you needed it.

Sequels have not got worse. We got older, and no film is ever going to land on you the way one did when you were fourteen.

Every restaurant is too loud now and I refuse to accept it is just me getting old.

Search has got noticeably worse and I have started adding the name of a forum to the end of every query, which is a strange thing to have to do in 2026.

I cannot do a phone call any more and I genuinely do not know when that happened.

The best decisions get made quickly. The ones that drag on for months usually dragged because nobody wanted to say the obvious thing out loud.

Make voting compulsory. Australia manages it, turnout sits around ninety percent, and nobody there appears to be living under tyranny.

Index funds have made markets less efficient — half the money in the room is now buying without an opinion about anything.

Antibiotic resistance is the slowest emergency we have and being slow is the entire problem. Nothing that takes thirty years to arrive ever gets a budget.

Subtitles on, always. I don't care that it supposedly means my hearing is going — I catch about a third more of what is actually said.