Insight

It’s redundant to say that our world is run by convention, but it is necessary to shine a light on just how sticky convention is. I’ll start with a relevant example. When people are tasked with making a presentation, there’s a whole set of conventions that pop up. The templates themselves confine them from the…

Way back in the early days of the internet, any email that was sent originated from a person and was addressed to another person. Whatever you got in your inbox was a message from someone else that you could treat as valid. That’s when there were only a few people connected to four computers on…

Almost any picture you see of the Solar System is wrong, especially if you can actually see all the planets on the same page. Even though we know that the planets are much farther away than we usually see them depicted, we have a persistent habit of not having any idea just how far away…