Welcome to Friday
Let’s get right to the links, shall we?
Here is what I’d like to share this week:
I enjoyed this look at the unknown entrepreneur who founded UPS. His focus from the beginning was always precision and efficiency. The company’s strict rules on appearances, avoiding left hand turns whenever possible, and making three attempts before returning goods to the shipper have all been around over a century. UPS was also the first parcel service to expand into air delivery in 1929.
The insightful Joan Didion answers the Proust Questionnaire.
“[I]f you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia, the whole project‐‐ every page, every edit, every talk page, every line of code, in every language that Wikipedia exists in‐‐ that represents something like the cumulation of 100 million hours of human thought. … And television watching? Two hundred billion hours, in the U.S. alone, every year. Put another way, now that we have a unit, that’s 2,000 Wikipedia projects a year spent watching television.
Arthur Brooks on what Winter Haters Get Wrong. “It turns out that people tend to think that weather matters more for their happiness than it actually does.”
Currently reading: The Daily Laws by Robert Greene
Have great weekend.
