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A group chat has no memory and no deadline, which is exactly the two things a team needs.

A brilliant multiplayer game with an empty queue is a worse game than a mediocre one with a full lobby.

The good ones are a puzzle you solve before the wave arrives. The bad ones are a timer with towers drawn on it.

The hardware part is easy. Keeping work out of your evening is the part that needs setting up.

Voice and data take different paths. A phone can have excellent data and no usable voice at all.

Most things that break are one part, and the part usually costs a tenth of the replacement.

Browsing is not choosing. Two hours of catalogue later, everyone goes to bed.

The worst way to learn a score is a notification that lands while you are queueing to watch the highlights.

Most plants on a balcony die of too much water and too little light, in that order.

The fastest route and the route you will keep riding are rarely the same one.

The best video app is the one already installed on the other phone, and it is rarely the one you would choose.

Listeners forgive a cheap microphone. They do not forgive a room with an echo.

The good ones are a puzzle about efficiency. The bad ones are a slot machine with a progress bar.

A good mystery makes you write something down. A bad one just makes you tap the glowing thing.

Most Android Auto faults are a cable, a power saver, or a car that wants its own update.

The phone does not break on the day support ends. The gap between it and the attackers simply stops closing.

Earbuds that cut out in the street but never at home are already telling you what the problem is.

The phone behind a shattered screen usually still works perfectly. The trick is finding another way to talk to it.

Each run starts with a weak deck and ends with a clever one, or with a defeat that taught you something.

A phone is a surprisingly good horror device. The screen is close to your face, the sound is in your ears and nobody else can see.

The hardest part of managing someone else's medicines is not remembering the dose. It is knowing whether someone else already gave it.

Motivation gets a habit through the first week. The way the habit is designed gets it through the rest.

A determined teenager can get around most parental controls in an afternoon. The limits that last are the ones they agreed to.

The photographs are only half the archive. The other half is who is in them, and that lives in somebody's memory.