What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
If you placed all the books in an average Waterstones end to end, it would stretch around 7500km!
But if you placed all the books *in our library* end to end, it would cause a huge fuss and you'd likely be asked to leave.
University of York Library
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
Almost all of the bugs and problems and breakage in the software you use is known to the engineers, we just aren't allowed to fix it. Gotta ship new features.
Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️⚧️
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
The number of parents that don't care much about their kids and/or have very thinly veiled resentment against them is much higher than most people think.
Margaret Adelle
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
Every one hour of an audiobook takes three hours of work. You burn hours trying to drink away mouth pops, redoing too loud or too soft lines, and forgetting how to say “penguin”
