You know that problem that’s cascading throughout the country? Yeah, the supply chain problem. The port’s cranes aren’t the bottleneck; it’s container storage. | learn more
Intermittent fasting shows health and longevity benefits in a variety of species. This short article published in Nature highlights a study that’s also linked fasting results to the circadian clock. | learn more
Zillow’s been in the house-flipping business since 2019. After buying 3,805 homes in Q2 of this year, they are pumping the brakes. Why? They are struggling with labor, materials, and a competitive real estate market. | learn more
An interview with Toucan founder Taylor Nieman. “Toucan launched a year ago on Product Hunt, in September 2020, and it was very well received. They were the #1 product on the day.” | learn more
This is a wonderful example of “do things, tell people.” Brian Barnes, CEO of Chicago-based M1 Finance, bought a bank and wrote about it. Of interest, it seems he bought the bank personally because, M1 “has work to do before […]
“[Stephanie] Esposito, of the Southwest Side, visited 367 hot dog stands in just five weeks to win Vienna Beef’s Hot Dog Stand Challenge. The second- and third-place winners — sisters Karen Buralli and Rose Lamont — also ate at all […]
It never fails to impress me how one can learn by sending emails to the right folks. “I didn’t know the answer to this one, so I sent an e-mail to Alcoa’s Closure division (I figured that Alcoa knows about anything […]
“Since 1839, the town of Henley had been the home of the Royal Regatta, the largest rowing race in all of England.” | learn more
It’s a big universe out there. | learn more
“Thin, dyspeptic, and humorless, he had seemed like an alien to his classmates since arriving at Stanford two and a half years earlier. He didn’t drink, didn’t date, didn’t crack jokes, and he seemed to possess both an insatiable ambition […]