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Gloria Mark, a professor of information science at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of “Attention Span,” started researching the way people used computers in 2004. The average time people spent on a single screen was 2.5 minutes. “I was astounded,” she told me. “That was so much worse than I’d thought it would be.” But that was ... See more
Wild stat: Finland has 3.3 million saunas for a population of 5.6 million (a sauna for every two people).
"Past the top 100 books, the numbers are dire. The average book sells 200 copies. An average "bestseller" sells about 2,000 copies."
~@JasonColavito
Jim O'Shaughnessyx.comAges of the Founding Fathers on July 4, 1776
James Monroe, 18
Aaron Burr, 20
Alexander Hamilton, 21
James Madison, 25
Thomas Jefferson, 33
John Adams, 40
Paul Revere, 41
George Washington, 44
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Alexis Ohanian 🗽x.comI don’t know who needs to hear this but… Craigslist has being running for the last 20+ years with a team of ~50 people.
In 1993, there were just 23,000 websites and less than 40 million users. In 2018, there are roughly a billion websites, and more than three billion users.
Jack Self • THE BIG FLAT NOW: Power, Flatness, and Nowness in the Third Millennium
“37 percent of the world’s population, 2.9 billion people, have never used the Internet.“
Tesla is the first US car manufacturer to mass-produce vehicles without going into bankruptcy in the past 100 years (and now has a larger market cap than the next six largest automakers combined).
In 2004, with the introduction of automated traffic lights, New York City disabled most of its 3,250 crosswalk buttons (it was cheaper than removing them), but pedestrians continue to press them, under the illusion that it changes the light so they can cross.”