Apollo 8 took 134 days to prepare for launch Disneyland took 366 days to build. The Empire State Building took 410 days to construct The Pentagon took 491 days to construct Boeing 747 took 930 days to develop One of my favorite curations from @patrickc: https://t.co/6pBzTJNxx8

Singapore’s prosperity could have turned it into another bumper-to-bumper Bangkok, whose congestion—gridlocking the average driver the equivalent of forty-four full days a year—is estimated to reduce Thailand’s entire GDP by about one-sixth. Yet Singapore is rarely congested, because it taxes cars heavily, auctions the right to buy them, imposes a

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I also think a lot about the old, iconic structures around the world that have stood the test of time and, in many cases, where we aren’t quite sure of all the details of how they were constructed. Marvels like the Colosseum, Roman aqueducts, or the Great Wall. Incredible architectural feats that were, by necessity, built to last and built slowly –... See more