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One of my favorite business stats today is that Tesla has never spent money on advertising.
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Today I learned that the East side of most American cities is poorer than the West side because of the Industrial Revolution.
Factories produced pollution, and winds in the US tend to move West to East. Wealthy people, wanting to avoid pollution carried by the wind, stayed West.
I learned more about why women living in the same space have menstrual synchronization: it speaks to our physiology; humans give off particles, absorbed by those around us (interesting how this works with stress and cortisol too)- The sex steroid hormones leak out of our sweat and through our particles, other women around us frequently can absorb... See more
I don’t know who needs to hear this but… Craigslist has being running for the last 20+ years with a team of ~50 people.
The first digital ad was displayed in 1994 on hotwired.com — the ad had a click-through rate of 44%, compared to an average of 0.46% for online display ads last year.
Why is life expectancy so long in Hong Kong? Life expectancy in Hong Kong is 84.23 years, more than five years longer than the US and the highest in the world. Hong Kong is not that wealthy (median household income is $38,000 USD); it’s somewhat polluted; people don’t obviously eat what seems like a healthy diet; and they don’t seem to exercise a... See more
Tyler Cowen • Work on these things - Marginal REVOLUTION
On-demand audio listening time (think podcasts) crossed linear audio listening (think radio) for the first time in 2023.
Joseph Heller wrote Catch 22 in the evenings after work - it took him eight years spending 2-3 hours each night.
source: Daily Rituals, Mason Currey