The Best Tech Newsletter Anywhere
Join 250,000 subscribers and get a daily digest of news, geek trivia, and our feature articles.
Jason is Editor in Chief of LifeSavvy, How-To Geek's sister site focused on helping people live their best life through tips, tricks, and advice on everything from parenting to career building. Prior to that, he was the Founding Editor of Review Geek, another How-To Geek sister site focused on consumer products and services. Jason has over a decade of experience in publishing and has penned thousands of articles during his time at LifeSavvy, Review Geek, How-To Geek, and Lifehacker. In addition to his current duties as Editor in Chief of LifeSavvy, he's an Editorial Advisor on How To-Geek's editorial board where he helps direct the growth and vision of the How-To Geek family. He's also the site's resident trivia expert---relentlessly poring over research and publications in search of the bizarre to amaze and delight 365 days a year.
He's been in love with technology since his earliest memories of writing simple computer programs with his grandfather, but his tech writing career took shape back in 2007 when he joined the Lifehacker team as their very first intern. After cutting his teeth on tech writing at Lifehacker and working his way up, he left as Weekend Editor and transferred over to How-To Geek in 2010. With years of awesome fun, writing, and hardware-modding antics at How-To Geek under his belt, Jason helped launch How-To Geek's sister site Review Geek in 2017. In 2019, he stepped back from his role at Review Geek to focus all his energy on LifeSavvy.
In addition to the long run as a tech writer and editor, Jason spent over a decade as a college instructor doing his best to teach a generation of English students that there's more to success than putting your pants on one leg at a time and writing five paragraph essays. While his days of steering students towards greatness are behind him, his lifelong desire to delight, entertain, and inform lives on with his work for How-To Geek and Review Geek.
If you're looking for him after hours, he's probably four search queries and twenty obscenities deep in a DIY project or entranced by the limitless exploration possibilities of some open-world game or another. He loves long walks on virtual beaches, playing worker placement board games with inconsequential themes, and spending time with his wife, daughter, and highly opinionated dog Cricket.
How-To Geek is an online technology magazine and one of the top 500 websites in the US. Since it was created more than a decade ago, the site’s 10,000+ in-depth articles have been read over 1 billion times. More than 15 million people read our articles every month.
We're the people you turn to when you want someone to explain technology, whether that means detailed troubleshooting guides or in-depth explainers on the latest tech. Our team of expert writers and editors have decades of experience in journalism and technology. Beyond the web, they've written books for publishers like Microsoft Press and have been published in print magazines like PCWorld and Consumers Digest.
How-To Geek has been recommended as an expert resource by industry groups like the Wi-Fi Alliance and newspapers like The New York Times. Organizations like the BBC and Wirecutter have directed their readers to us for our helpful tutorials. Our writers have been interviewed as experts on TV and radio programs. We're an independent company that remains fully owned by our founders, too.
The Bayeux tapestry—a 224.3-foot long textile artwork dating back to at least the 11th century—is actually an example of embroidery and not tapestry as it was embroidered with needles and not woven on a loom.
Due to licensing laws and contracts, all the Kit-Kat candy bars made in the USA are produced by Hershey’s and all the Kit-Kats made in the rest of the world are produced by Nestle.
The reason most people vomit when severely motion sick is because the symptoms of motion sickness (vertigo, disorientation, and balance problems) mimic the symptoms of poisoning and the body attempts to purge itself of any remaining ingested toxins as a self-protective measure.
The Nopili Rock-Climbing Goby has a rather peculiar talent: it uses suckers in its mouth and on its belly to suction onto the rock faces of waterfalls and scale them one well-timed movement at a time.
Babies love games like peek-a-boo because they haven’t developed object permanence (the ability to understand that objects exist even when not perceived) and actually believe a person concealed in the game of peek-a-boo has vanished and then reappeared before their eyes.
Between 1935 and 1961, the Academy Awards included a Special Honorary Academy Award category for child stars called the Academy Juvenile Award—the first one awarded went to Shirley Temple.
One ton of grapes yields enough wine to fill a little over two barrels and results in about 720 bottles of finished product.
Cucurbita pepo is one of the most diverse plants used in cooking. Various cultivars of the plant include: pumpkins, winter and summer squash, acorn squash, zucchini, and variations of the aforementioned cultivars.
The oldest surviving piano is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and dates from 1720. While not the first piano created, it was crafted by the inventor of the piano, Bartolomeo Cristofori.
Contronyms are words with multiple and opposing meanings. For example, the word “dust” can indicate removal (you dust your furniture to clean it) or addition (you dust some powdered sugar onto confections).
It takes a lot of growing to become the biggest mammal on Earth—blue whale calves are around 5,950 pounds at birth and gain up to 200 pounds per day until they become adults, weighing from 200,000 to 300,000 pounds.
Mount Everest was originally calculated to be 29,000 feet tall in 1856, but the reported number was changed to 29,002 feet to avoid people assuming it was merely an estimate. The most current figure, established by a 1955 Indian survey, is 29,029 feet.
Australia’s constitution includes a provision that allows New Zealand to become an Australian state.
