Kindling Daily

Short reads on technology, science, and the way we work.

Technology · 4 min read Why your battery percentage is basically a guess That number on your screen is not a measurement. It is a model, and models drift. Health · 5 min read The quiet comeback of the fifteen-minute walk Not a workout, not a commute. Researchers keep finding that the short aimless walk does something the gym does not. History · 5 min read The spreadsheet that quietly rewrote the office VisiCalc shipped in 1979 and made a category of work obsolete almost overnight. Nobody planned it. Science · 4 min read We have better maps of Mars than of our own seafloor Most of the ocean floor has never been directly measured. What we have is inferred from the shape of the sea surface. Business · 4 min read The free trial is not a sample. It is a bet. Companies are not showing you the product. They are buying a specific change in your behaviour. Culture · 4 min read Why old songs keep beating new ones Catalogue music now takes the majority of listening. The reasons are mostly structural, not nostalgic.

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