- Over-stuffed schedules are undermining our friendships and well-being.
- America’s math curriculum needs to be fixed.
- Fast casual restaurants in the U.S. have adopted tablets on their tables “to increase
customer satisfactionprofits,” but they’re a trainwreck for servers. - “Ultimately, capitalism is going to lose its customers. There won’t be anybody to buy the product because everybody is going to be so poor.“
- “Small government” types in Texas built a low tax “city” that few people want to live in (and fewer should drive by).
- This report (pdf, in Dutch) explores the time savings from optimizing train travel in Europe, indicating that trains can displace many plane trips on speed alone.
Blue for train and purple for plane trip duration. Green bars show train times with optimization. - Some very interesting insights into the (dehumanized) algorithms that maximize profits for Capital One (credit cards) at the expense of poor peoples’ bad judgement.
- Some useful insights into the “unicorn massacre” (Uber, et al.)
- Science can be good with exact theories, but not when it comes to humans
- The Agricultural Revolution was good for collecting taxes, not citizens.
H/T to EH