Some hobbies ask you to slow down — but tea people take that as a personal challenge, building entire rooms around a fifteen-minute ceremony and arguing passionately about water temperature like it matters (it does). This week we wander into the surprisingly deep world of tea culture: the collectors hunting down century-old Yixing clay pots, the gentle rivalries between gongfu devotees and casual builders of a good cuppa, and why so many people find that the ritual of making tea is, somehow, the whole point. Jigsaw puzzles taught us that sometimes the process is the pleasure — turns out a kettle already knew that.