Breakdowns by Ken

The series

Breakdowns

One company, six questions, sixty seconds. Then a page like this one, where you can check every word of it.

The six questions

Always the same, always in this order: it starts with who made the thing and ends with why it exists.

Who

Who made it.

What

What it actually is, said the way you would say it to a ten-year-old.

How

How it works, plainly, and where the analogy breaks.

When

When it started, and what has changed since.

Where

Where you meet it in your own life.

Why

Why it exists, or why it should matter to you.

The rule behind it

Nothing appears in a reel unless it is in that reel’s fact record first — a claim, a source, the date it was true, and the date it stops being safe to repeat. If a number has no record behind it, it does not get said, however good it would sound.

Every page here publishes that record in full, including the claims that were researched and then cut.


Every breakdown

Three a week once the first is shot.