Four common sums, and where each one goes astray
BMI was never designed for individuals. Working-day counts are off by one more often than not. Both errors are ordinary and both are avoidable.
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Gallons that are not gallons, and meetings an hour out
A US gallon and an imperial gallon differ by twenty per cent. Time zone offsets change twice a year, on different dates in different countries.
Deduplicating, placeholder text, and the Markdown worth knowing
Duplicate removal fails on invisible whitespace. Lorem ipsum hides layout problems it was meant to reveal. Markdown has one gotcha everyone hits.
Four small tools, assessed rather than promoted
The Pomodoro numbers are arbitrary. Human random choices are not random. Both matter more than the tools built on top of them.
Threads, transcripts, and the PDF you cannot embed
Emails print to PDF easily and lose the headers that make them evidence. Meetings are not documents at all — what you actually want is the transcript.
Folds, resolution, and why the panels are not equal
A tri-fold brochure has three panels of different widths, PDFs have no single DPI, and most home printers cannot print to the edge at all.
Sending records that stay official, and citing what is in them
Downloading your transcript and forwarding it makes it unofficial. And you cite a PDF as whatever it is — the file format is not the source type.
What leaves the building when a document leaves the building
Pasting a contract into a chatbot is a disclosure to a third party. Most document workflow problems are trust problems wearing a technology costume.
Making your own sample file, and what to read it with
Downloading a test PDF from an unknown site to test PDF handling is a poor trade. Making one takes a minute. And Windows already includes a capable reader.
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