On pizza cutters and Tim Harford’s ‘Adapt’…
Pizza cutters fill me with dread.
Not because they are sharp enough to slice through crispy thin-crust pizza even though they are usually just made of plastic, which, admittedly, I do find a bit weird. No, I’m fearful of them because it struck me a few years ago that they only have a single failure mode, and that failure mode is catastrophic.
