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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.
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Inventor of the iconic game Tetris, Alexey Pajitnov, created a much lesser known game called Hatris; the game is, as you may have imagined, essentially a Tetris-variant played with hats.
Famed stuntman Evel Knievel broke 35 bones and suffered more than 433 bone fractures over the course of his career.
The dots on dice and dominoes are called “pips”; the term means a group of small but easily counted items and is also used to refer to the small hard seeds of some fruit such as tangerines, apples, and pears.
The North Magnetic Pole, distinct from the Geographic North Pole and the Geomagnetic North Pole, moves 34-37 miles (55-60 kilometers) per year and is presently drifting from its prior location in Canada towards Russia.
Chart topping song “American Woman” was penned and performed by the thoroughly non-American Canadian rock band The Guess Who.
The simplistic male and female logos that adorn public bathrooms around the world are the most visible examples of Isotype (International System of Typographic Picture Education), a pictorial communication system conceived by Otto and Marie Neurath, and designed by Gerd Arntz, in the 1920s.
Pen knives, diminutive pocket knives with small sharp blades, derive their name from their original purpose: to slice through quill tips and turn them into writing pens.
Chameleons change their colors using chromatophores, a specialized type of cell that contains tiny sacs of pigments; when a chameleon shifts color, they do so by expanding or contracting these sacs to change the color of the cells.
The highest uninterrupted waterfall in the world is Angel Falls, located in Venezuela. It has a total height of 3,212 feet (979 meters) and a plunge of 2,648 feet (807 meters).
Writers for That ’70s Show got creative with their titles as the show progressed; all the episode titles in season five were the titles of Led Zeppelin songs, in season six they were The Who songs, in season seven they were The Rolling Stones songs, and in season eight they were Queen songs.
The success of Sudoku, a form of number-placement puzzle, led to a 700 percent increase in British pencil sales in 2005.
The father of modern taxonomy, Carl Linnaeus (a.k.a. Carl von Linné), would name “unpleasant” species after associates he didn’t care for; the noxious weed Siegesbeckia, for example, is named after the German botanist Johann Siegesbeck.
“Huh?” as a linguistic filler that indicates the speaker is surprised or didn’t know something, is something linguists consider a universal human word.
