Category: How To

I was sitting at my workbench last Tuesday, squinting through my jeweler’s loupe at the delicate escapement of a 1920s pendulum clock, when my phone buzzed with a frantic notification.…

I remember sitting in my old physics lab, surrounded by the smell of ozone and heated solder, watching my students struggle with a textbook that treated electricity like magic rather…

I spent thirty-four years in a physics classroom watching students stare blankly at equations, and if there is one thing I’ve learned, it’s that people hate being lied to by…

I see them all the time in the glossy advertisements: “Upgrade now for the lightning-fast experience!” It’s a lovely sentiment, but it’s also a blatant lie designed to separate you…

I spent thirty-four years in a classroom watching students try to memorize formulas they didn’t actually grasp, and quite frankly, I see the same thing happening with modern tech. People…

I spent forty years watching students try to fix broken circuits by simply tapping the glass harder, and frankly, the advice people give about how to improve phone battery life…

I was hunched over my workbench last Tuesday, squinting through my jeweler’s loupe at the delicate escapement of a 19th-century pocket watch, when my phone let out that dreaded, high-pitched…

I spent thirty-four years in a physics classroom watching students assume that if a machine was plugged in, it was working. They had the same misplaced confidence when it came…

I sat at my workbench last Tuesday, surrounded by the tiny, rhythmic heartbeats of three different disassembled alarm clocks, when I realized how much we’ve been lied to about modern…

I remember sitting at my workbench last Tuesday, surrounded by the tiny, rhythmic heartbeats of three different antique clocks, when my nephew handed me his brand-new smartphone. He expected me…