No Spoilers.
Not sure why these numbery sites always grab me, but it always seem like good things to share:
EverySecond is a site aimed at visualizing the things that happen every second around the world.
It’s interesting to see how many widgets are being sold. But I’m a sucker for seeing the cost of hidden things like R&D over time.
I finally got around to reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman. It’s unlike anything I’ve read. As insightful as it is original. It’s also why I’m not getting enough sleep.
Neil’s insights on America are fascinating. This one made me stop and think:
“This is the only country in the world,” said Wednesday, into the stillness, “that worries about what it is.”
“What?”
“The rest of them know what they are. No one ever needs to go searching for the heart of Norway. Or looks for the soul of Mozambique. They know what they are.”
Home Designing posted every Ikea Catalog cover between 1951 and 2015.
Some favorites:
Interesting to watch the design trends as well as the editorial trends. Some have people. Some don’t. Some feel half a step away from a newspaper circular, while the more conceptual directions feature chairs flying through space. You can almost see the internal politics and motivations playing out over time.
The Verge, writing about the coworking service Spacee and their partnership with Hooters in Tokyo:
Hooters is offering 20 seats from 1-7 PM, times when it isn’t particularly busy. A 30-minute work block can be booked through Spacee, which requires no sign-up or membership fees. And each 30-minute block is only 50 yen or about 48 cents. If you need a workspace for the full six hours a day, five days a week, that’s only 60 bucks a month.
Finally, your weird neighbor can knock out a basket of wings and yell about sports while whiteboarding an investor pitch.