We built an entire economy on the idea that people will keep buying things they already have, and then act surprised when the things are designed to stop working.

We keep calling it a housing crisis like it's weather.

Nobody plays anything until it goes dark any more and I cannot work out whether that is the traffic, the phones, or the parents.

If you could only fix one, fix your sleep, not your exercise. Nobody wants to hear it because you cannot post about sleeping.

That dentistry sits outside the NHS is the strangest line anyone has ever drawn through a human body. Teeth are in there. They hurt. Nobody can explain it.

Football fans do not want their club to be successful, they want it to be theirs. That is why every ownership row goes the way it does.

Most people would be happier with fewer options. Ask anyone who has spent forty minutes scrolling and then rewatched something they had already seen twice.

Being late is a decision that your time is worth more than mine. There is no version of it that isn't that, however pleasantly it gets phrased.

Startups are a worse deal for employees than they were ten years ago. Same hours, same risk, a much thinner slice, and the exit that justified it happens far less often.

Shah rukh is indeed the last of the stars. Prove me wrong ✌🏻

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

Football was better without VAR and I will not be moved on this. You cannot celebrate on a three minute delay.

Every handover document is written by somebody who has already mentally left, which is why none of them are any good.

Being the person in the group who organises things is a thankless job and it is always the same person, and that person is usually tired.

Every organisation says it wants honest feedback and has exactly one person who gives it, and that person is always halfway out the door.

The best manager I ever had appeared to do almost nothing. It took me three years to work out that was the job.

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

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

Cookie banners were meant to give people control and have instead taught an entire continent to click the nearest button without reading anything. We have trained a reflex, not a decision.

Sport is the last mainstream thing where the outcome is genuinely unknown to everyone watching, and that scarcity explains most of what it costs. Everything else in the culture now arrives pre-summarised, already reacted to, and with the ending available before you start. The live unknown is what the broadcast money is really buying.

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

We have lost the ability to be mildly interested in something. It is either your whole personality or you have not heard of it.

"Free delivery" is not free and we all know it is not free and we all still pick it, which I think says something slightly embarrassing about all of us.

I started leaving my phone in another room and I feel slightly deranged about how much better it is. That cannot be right. It is a phone.

The first time I earned more than my father had, and what it was actually like. I had been quietly aiming at it for years without ever saying so. Then it happened, on an ordinary Tuesday, and the thing I felt was not pride. It was a sort of vertigo — the number had been a fixed point my whole life, the thing a household ran on, and now it was just a figure I had passed. What I had not expected is that it changes the conversation permanently and in one direction. He cannot ask me for advice, because that would be an admission. I cannot offer it, because that would be worse. So we talk about the car and the garden, and the one subject where I could actually be useful is the one we have both silently agreed to leave alone. I do not think either of us is handling it badly. I think there is no way to handle it. The money was never the thing that was being measured, and finding that out did not help as much as I assumed it would.