Sometimes life calls for a «screw it» moment. You know this because you’ve had them. You’ve lived through moments when you just had to throw caution to the wind and let fate, or perhaps impulse, take the wheel. Maybe you were super nervous to ask someone out on a date, but instead of wallflowering in …
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Sometimes things happen not for a reason. Sometimes things just don’t make any sense. This is crucial to accept if you’re going to have a happy life. If you’re searching for meaning in every corner all the time, you’re going to drive yourself crazy. Because one day you’re going to see a tub of half-eaten …
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Sometimes designs fail us. They take a turn that we don’t expect, and then we’re left baffled. It’s one of the things that life asks of us. We often have to take absurdity in stride as humans. When you really think about it, nothing makes that much sense. The fact that we drink cow milk …
Seguir leyendo 27 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (July 13, 2025)

Sometimes it’s so funny when things go wrong. Not when it’s at our expense. Like that time in ninth grade when we were carrying a tray of chili cheese fries, trying to find a place to sit, knowing that you couldn’t sit with the cool kids, but hoping that you wouldn’t have to sit with …
Seguir leyendo 25 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (July 6, 2025)

I don’t know anyone who has led a life without making any mistakes. I’d like to bet that those people don’t actually exist. Sure, some people are exceptional, like Mother Theresa or the Dalai Lama. They’ve dedicated their lives to helping others and they’ve done a great job of it. But I would bet my …
Seguir leyendo 27 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (June 29, 2025)

Why do misspellings make us laugh so much? From the dawn of time we’ve been fascinated by the failures of others maybe it makes us feel better about ourselves. Maybe it reminds us that everything we’ve built is absurd. Maybe it’s just funny when somebody says Borpo instead of Oprah. We may never know the …
Seguir leyendo 25+ Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (June 22, 2025)

Design is all around us. It’s literally everywhere we look. Everything man-made was designed by somebody somewhere at some point in time. It sounds facile to say this, but it’s easy to forget. You take the shape of a pencil for granted. A pencil has been a pencil for as long as you’ve been alive …
Seguir leyendo 27 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (June 15, 2025)

Sometimes people make choices that we cannot understand. This is the nature of being a human. You can never truly know what goes on in somebody else’s head. You might have empathy for them and try your best to understand, but you can never fully know. Because you haven’t had the same life experiences, you …
Seguir leyendo 25+ Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (June 8, 2025)

It’s rare that something goes off without a hitch. You can prepare all you want for a certain project or event but inevitably something will go wrong. If you’re planning a wedding, at least one bridesmaid is going to forget her shoes and someone will have to make a last-minute sprint to DSW. If you’re …
Seguir leyendo 27 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (June 1, 2025)

As much as us control freaks might like it, we can’t be in control of everything. Some things are just out of our reach. Try as we might to white-knuckle grip the situation, sometime a white-knuckle grip only means that it will shatter in our fist. If you try too hard to make something go …
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