The shift to WFH is the largest shock to labor markets in decades. Pre-pandemic WFH was trending towards 5% of days by 2022. Now WFH is now stabilizing at 30%, a 6-fold jump.
In America alone this is saving about 200 million hours and 6 billion miles of commuting a week.
Went to renew my Taiwanese passport, got denied because they couldn’t see my ears in my photo.
Ran across the street to UPS to take new photos. They told me to put these on — a first for everything I guess
This week marks the 80th anniversary of NYT crossword.
The Times started offering the puzzle after bombing of Pearl Harbor, to give anxious readers a distraction during wartime blackouts.
(This was pre-Wordle)
From the first century A.D through to early Byzantine period, it was the custom in Egypt to bury those who could afford it in mummies onto which were bound superb encaustic portraits of the deceased; in some cases full-length pictures were painted onto the winding sheet itself.
Fun little trick in the Sunday New York Times crossword yesterday: the central theme clue was "The better of two sci-fi franchises", and regardless of whether you put Star Wars or Star Trek, the crossing clues worked