Thursday 24 September 2026
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Technology
Why your laptop’s battery percentage is only a guess
The number in the corner of your screen is an estimate made by a small chip. Here is how it works, why it drifts, and how to keep your battery healthier for longer.
Tomás Reyes
Culture
The quiet return of the paper notebook
People who spend all day on screens keep buying paper notebooks. Here is what they get from them, what they buy, and how to make the habit stick.
Ingrid Solberg
Work
How to hand over a job so nobody calls you after you leave
A good handover takes a few weeks of steady work before your last day. Here is what to write down, who to introduce, and how to leave nothing hanging.
Owen Achterberg
Money
How to read a pay slip without a finance degree
Your pay slip explains exactly how your salary became the money in your account. Here is what each part means, and a five-minute monthly check that catches mistakes early.
Daniel Hartley
Culture
The case for reading the same book twice
Knowing the ending frees you to see how a book is built, and to notice how much you have changed since you first read it.
Ingrid Solberg
Science
What a ‘40% chance of rain’ really means
The rain percentage on your forecast has a precise meaning that most people get wrong. Here is what it measures, how it is checked and how to use it.
Nadia Ferreira
Long reads
Why your laptop’s battery percentage is only a guess
10 min
The four-day week, one year later: what actually changed
9 min
The quiet return of the paper notebook
8 min
How to read a pay slip without a finance degree
8 min
What a ‘40% chance of rain’ really means
8 min
Meetings that could have been a document, and the ones that couldn’t
8 min
The quiet cost of subscriptions, and a one-hour audit to fix it
8 min
How to hand over a job so nobody calls you after you leave
8 min
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Technology
10 min read
Why your laptop’s battery percentage is only a guess
The number in the corner of your screen is an estimate made by a small chip. Here is how it works, why it drifts, and how to keep your battery healthier for longer.
Work
9 min read
The four-day week, one year later: what actually changed
A 40-person design studio moved to Monday to Thursday on full pay. A year on, its staff explain where the time came from, what went wrong and what they would keep.
Culture
8 min read
The quiet return of the paper notebook
People who spend all day on screens keep buying paper notebooks. Here is what they get from them, what they buy, and how to make the habit stick.
Money
8 min read
How to read a pay slip without a finance degree
Your pay slip explains exactly how your salary became the money in your account. Here is what each part means, and a five-minute monthly check that catches mistakes early.
Science
8 min read
What a ‘40% chance of rain’ really means
The rain percentage on your forecast has a precise meaning that most people get wrong. Here is what it measures, how it is checked and how to use it.
Work
8 min read
Meetings that could have been a document, and the ones that couldn’t
Some meetings exist to share news, and some exist to make a decision. Learning to tell them apart, and writing things down first, can give back hours every week.
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