Dear Humans,

I’m here to praise useless knowledge. I’m sure you’ve all heard the question–When are we ever going to use this? But you won’t use most of the things you know, and you won’t know how to do most of the things you do.

I used to know who won the World Series every year since 1903. Talk about useless! I mean, you could just Google who won the 1975 World Series. But unlike Google, my knowledge of the Big Red Machine exists in the context of Astroturf, Watergate, Vietnam, and stagflation.

Knowledge is like a Lego block, but one with connectors on every side. You hook it to other useless knowledge blocks and create big beautiful structures that explain something about the world.

Sincerely,

Mr. Heimbuck