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 …
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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 …
Seguir leyendo 24 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (May 25, 2025)

Sometimes you have no choice but to say «screw it.» There are so many areas of our lives where we have to put in a lot of effort. You probably put in a lot of effort at your job, making sure you arrive on time, ready to give it your all and help others along …
Seguir leyendo 25+ Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (May 18, 2025)

Other people’s intentions can often elude us. Try as we might, we will never truly know what it’s like to live in somebody else’s brain. We can exercise empathy and try to understand someone through the lens of our own lives, but we will never have had the same life experience that they have.  Even …
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