Digital media has a feature that is almost a paradox. Digital media can be the most fragile way of storing information ever invented. Not just because magnetic media can be erased by a magnetic field, and that bad actors can alter it, but because a perfectly...
Some time ago, I was listening to a Fresh Air episode about the global supply chain and while hearing about the extreme complexity of properly orchestrating trans-shipment and to efficiently store each container, it came to mind how this could be used to explain two...
This episode of PPILL brought to you courtesy of the tedious work of assembling IKEA furniture. When everything is commingled together, it takes us longer to find what we are looking for. So we have separated Large and Small eggs so they can be sold with different...
We’ve all been there before. We set a goal for ourselves, whether it’s to save money, lose weight, or quit smoking; but no matter how badly we want to achieve that goal, we just can’t seem to stick to it. That’s because we humans are...
In Miami, the rain is not just a rain, it is the rain of Miami. It is the sound of a thousand drums. It is universal flood level of water. It is as if the sky has opened up and poured out its contents on the city below it. But if you wait, just a few minutes, it will...
