I had some notion that Wirecutter was the NYTimes site for dispensing advice on what to buy and how to do things. But this cartoon-like hack sent me to Google just to confirm. What follows is the first thing that popped up. I admit to confirmation bias and thus, looked no further.
“The Wirecutter model is to take what Consumer Reports used to do and eliminate all the hard parts like actually learning the science behind the product, performing serious long-term evaluations, and building funky stress testing machines. (And the big one, not accepting advertiser dollars.) What's left? Some underqualified millenials doing a bunch of Googling, buying some products off Amazon, chatting about them on a Slack thread, and then summarizing all the anecdata using no fewer than 10000 referral-generating words. Suffice it to say I find their recommendations basically useless.”
Even preschoolers know that stuff lives in designated zones and when those zones are violated, voilà- clutter. If the concept of sorting like items and using zones for specific purposes is news…we’re in even more trouble than I thought.
Sidebar: Disparaging Wirecutter for Googling when that’s exactly what I’ve done is classic “pot calling the kettle black”. And there you have it.