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Work
Podcast Guest Booking Is Broken and the Data Proves It
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Burning
Aug 25, 2026
Tech
AI Is Answering Millions of Questions Every Day Using Content From Blogs and Publishers Who Are Getting Paid Almost Nothing For It
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Burning
Aug 12, 2026
Community
Two Indigenous Languages Disappear Every Month and the Oral Knowledge Recorded Only in Those Languages Disappears With Them
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Burning
Aug 12, 2026
Tech
Starlink Costs $599 Before You Know if It Will Actually Work at Your Address
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Burning
Aug 12, 2026
Finance
Sports Betting Has Been Legalised Everywhere and the Research Shows Every Dollar Bet Is a Dollar Not Invested
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Burning
Jul 22, 2026
Shopping
Star Ratings Are Broken and the AI Shopping Agents Replacing Them Are Not Trusted Either
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Burning
Jul 22, 2026
Work
The Hiring Process Is Now a Bot Fighting Another Bot and Real Candidates Are Losing in the Middle
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Burning
Jul 15, 2026
Health
Healthcare Was Designed Around a World Where Someone Was Always Home. That World No Longer Exists
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Jul 13, 2026
Tech
You hit your AI token limit mid-task and the platforms will not tell you exactly why or when it will happen again
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Burning
Jul 7, 2026
Work
AI summaries let viewers extract the useful part of a YouTube video in 30 seconds and leave, and the creator earns nothing from that interaction
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Burning
Jul 7, 2026
Work
Creators lose followers every day with no idea whether it was their content, their posting frequency, a platform purge, or just natural drift, and the platforms refuse to tell them
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Warm
Jun 29, 2026
Work
Uber will not show riders how much of their fare actually goes to the driver, and the real number swings by nearly 30 percentage points depending on the city
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Warm
Jun 26, 2026
Tech
People are being secretly recorded by strangers wearing Meta smart glasses in public and there is currently no law that gives them any recourse
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Burning
Jun 21, 2026
Work
AI tools are supposed to free up your time but workers using them report working more hours, not fewer, and nobody has fixed the incentive that causes it
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Burning
Jun 19, 2026
Finance
Companies have replaced human customer service with AI chatbots designed to exhaust you into giving up rather than resolve your problem
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Burning
Jun 16, 2026
Tech
You save posts, screenshots and content every day with the intention of going back but the volume makes everything impossible to retrieve
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Burning
Jun 16, 2026
Shopping
Amazon's star rating system is broken and the fake reviews propping it up cost consumers $770 billion in bad purchases last year
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Burning
Jun 9, 2026
Finance
Elderly people lose $7.7 billion to scams every year and their families have almost no way to know it is happening until the money is gone
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Burning
Jun 9, 2026
Home
Contractors won't come out for small home repairs and the gap hits elderly homeowners hardest
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Burning
Jun 1, 2026
Tech
Mobile game ads show completely different gameplay from the actual game and regulators have barely touched it
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Burning
Jun 1, 2026
Work
Evaluating B2B software means filling out a lengthy form and sitting through multiple sales calls before seeing anything
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Burning
May 26, 2026
Tech
When your food delivery order is wrong the restaurant never finds out and the problem keeps happening
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Burning
May 25, 2026
Work
Submitting a short film to festivals costs hundreds or thousands of dollars with almost no transparency about what your money actually buys
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Burning
May 20, 2026
Finance
Nobody knows when they are supposed to tip anymore and the iPad turning to face you was designed to exploit that confusion
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Burning
May 19, 2026
Shopping
Every clothing brand uses different size charts making online shopping a guessing game with no reliable standard
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Burning
May 12, 2026
Work
Four in ten companies post job listings with no real intention of hiring anyone
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Burning
May 12, 2026
Shopping
Buying concert tickets from resellers has become a genuine gamble with no reliable way to verify authenticity before the show
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Burning
May 6, 2026
Home
Renters have no reliable way to verify a landlord's reputation before signing a lease
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Burning
May 6, 2026
Work
Small business owners have no affordable way to run proper background checks on contractors and freelancers before hiring them
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May 5, 2026
Finance
Crypto taxes across multiple wallets and exchanges are nearly impossible to calculate without paying an accountant who also does not fully understand them
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Burning
May 4, 2026
Finance
Budgeting apps are complicated enough that most people abandon them within a week of downloading
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Burning
May 3, 2026
Tech
The App Store review process takes so long that developers lose momentum, revenue, and users waiting for Apple to approve basic updates
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Burning
May 3, 2026
Tech
Builders who share projects made with AI assistance face public backlash with no clear standard for what disclosure is actually expected
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Burning
May 2, 2026
Travel
Airlines routinely damage and destroy luggage and make the claims process so painful that most passengers give up
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Warm
May 2, 2026
Shopping
Facebook Marketplace has no safe way to pay, meet, or arrange delivery and fraud is the predictable result
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Burning
May 1, 2026
Finance
Streaming services have fragmented so much that watching what you want now costs more than cable ever did
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Burning
May 1, 2026
Health
People with chronic conditions re-explain their entire medical history to every new doctor because records do not transfer properly
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Burning
Apr 28, 2026
Environment
Greenwashing has made every eco-friendly claim meaningless and consumers have no reliable way to verify impact
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Warm
Apr 28, 2026
Work
Job applicants have no way to know which companies are known for ghosting after interviews
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Burning
Apr 17, 2026
Travel
Hotels call rooms ocean view when you can barely see water, and there is no standard that stops them
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Warm
Apr 17, 2026
Work
Managers can't tell if their remote team is actually working without resorting to surveillance tools that destroy trust
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Burning
Apr 15, 2026
Finance
You're paying for subscriptions you forgot about and companies make it deliberately impossible to cancel
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Burning
Apr 14, 2026
Real Estate
Small landlords can't track maintenance requests without paying enterprise software prices
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Burning
Mar 24, 2026
Finance
Freelancers lose hours every month reconciling income across PayPal, Wise, and Stripe
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Warm
Mar 20, 2026