“Even though Cooler Screens resumed servicing Walgreens stores after the judge’s order, its smart doors continued to crash. When a set of fridges went dark at a Walgreens in Joliet, Illinois, in early 2024, an employee taped photos of the […]
After a recent revelation that many teabags were spewing plastic particles into my hot tea, I admit I was a bit unnerved. The good news is I checked and my bags are made of paper. “The list compiled below is […]
This is where the coaching session link above came from. “Tacit knowledge is knowledge that can’t properly be transmitted via verbal or written instruction, like the ability to create great art or assess a startup. This tacit knowledge is a […]
“To be patient in the face of endless waiting, resilient in the face of frustration, and to hold ourselves to the highest standard, even when no one else seems to.” ~ learn more
This was very cool. Misha works as a coach specializing in helping people have better conversations. Listening to this real session was uniquely great and I hope he publishes more of them!“In this recording, you will hear real-life coaching sessions […]
“Charley Douglass was the first guy who could make anyone laugh at the push of a button. The sound engineer invented the laff box and the laugh-track technique, which was quickly adopted by television in the 1960s and named “sweetening.” […]
This is kind of an insane story of a museum heist in the UK by an American kid with a obsession for creating fly fishing lures. “He was only 20 when he stole the birds, 299 of them. And not […]
“As of the beginning of World War II, American torpedoes utilized 180-proof ethyl alcohol as fuel for the miniature steam engines that drove them toward their targets. Lacking consistent access to liquor, opportunistic sailors occasionally drained the torpedoes of their […]
I did not fact check anything about this story of Lord Timothy Dexter. I sure hope it’s all true. Married into money, his first move was to try and prove how cool he is to the Boston elites by buying […]
Brian Potter took the time to translate (with tech) Chang’s Chinese-language autobiography then write up this great 30 minute summary. “TSMC has a fascinating origin story: it was founded in 1985 by Morris Chang, who, after working in the US […]