You will recognise this when you have spent 40 minutes off and on trying to do something online when you could have been spending your time happily and productively doing something else.

Bad internet is worse than no internet

The Generalised Peter Principle states that "Anything that works will be used in progressively more challenging situations until it fails.

The Generalised Peter Principle is a specific case of the Peter Principle, which is the same idea but applied to people 😱.

I observed the Generalised Peter Principle when packing a minivan in Cambodia.

The Generalised Peter Principle

The old knuckle trick. I still find it handy when “30 days has November…” leaves me with some uncertainty.

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