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

Polarisation gets the blame, but the lasting damage from social media might be flattening — every subject arrives at the same size, in the same box, with the same three reactions available, whether it is a war or a sandwich.

Inheritance decides more about how someone's life goes than education does, and we spend all our time arguing about schools because that is the lever we are allowed to touch.

Nobody tells you that recovering from something takes about three times longer than the leaflet says, and that the last third is almost entirely boredom.

Denzel curry is better than lil dicky. They're not even in the same league

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

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

A backdoor for one government is a backdoor for everyone, and this is arithmetic rather than politics. A key that exists can be stolen.

Getting a GP appointment has become a competitive sport and the people who are worst at sport are the ones who need it most.

Nobody has ever explained to me why we accept that a phone lasts three years.

Most "we need better communication" is really "somebody needs to make a decision and nobody wants to be the one who did".

Nobody finishes books and we have all quietly agreed to lie about it.

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

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

Youth sport got professionalised and the result is ten year olds with strength programmes and nobody left to make up the numbers on a Sunday.

Nobody knows their neighbours and everybody says they would like to, which suggests the barrier is not that we do not want to.

I have never regretted spending money on a good mattress or decent shoes. Almost everything else I have regretted.

The algorithm has quietly killed the thing where you find something you were not looking for. Every recommendation is a slightly worse version of what I already like.

The number of people I know who have quietly cut something out of their diet and never mentioned it to a doctor is, now I think about it, most of them.

Museums should explain less. I have started reading the wall text before looking at the thing, which means I am now being told what to see before I have seen it.

Open-plan offices are the clearest case I know of an entire industry adopting something because it was cheaper and inventing the reason afterwards.

F1 drivers are athletes in exactly the same sense footballers are, and the people who scoff have never held their neck steady at 4g for two hours in fifty degree heat.

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.

Running a car costs most people about four hundred a month once you count everything, and almost nobody has ever counted everything.