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There is much in the world that is complex, confusing, or downright confounding. Here are a few of the many things that I don’t understand.How toFold a fitted sheet, no matter how many times I watch it doneFill out most tax, financial, or legal forms correctlyBend it like BeckhamWrite a single resume that appeals to an AI algorithm AND a personRespond to “Guess what?” without saying “Chicken butt”Fix my golf swing so the ball doesn’t slice (Yeah yeah, practice …)PeopleWho choose cruelty over kindnessWho don’t use turn signalsWho continue to use Twitter or X or Grokking Bay 69 or whateverWho touch someone else’s monitorWho think the Earth is flatWho are willing to surrender their creativity to a machineWho use their phone at a urinal or talk on the phone on the toiletWho start smoking in this day and ageWho think Donald Trump has the interest of anyone other than himself in mindScienceWhat quantum physics is and how it explains the ways the world worksHow truly deep and massive the world’s oceans areHow mind-bogglingly distant objects in space are from each otherHow creatures with different photoreceptors see the worldWhat happened during the Big Bang and howHow the human brain worksHow matter can be both a wave and a particle at the same timeMiscellaneousWhy some grocery stores feel the need to move where things are kept regularlyHow offsides work in soccer (football)Why there are only 7 notes (plus sharps and flats for some of them) in the musical scaleHow dribbling rules work in basketballHow computers can take a series of on and off values and translate that into everything we do with them todayHow to stop adding things to this list …