Tag: status

If you own a retail business, and you don’t accept Apple Pay, you are slowing the advancement of civilization.

Research:

Sleep deprivation has been shown to effect:
1. Decision-making
2. Ethics
3. Health
4. Time estimation

Creative thinking drops by 45% under high level of time pressure. (Teresa Amabile, Harvard)

Sleeping only 7 hours a night for a while will bring an A student in the top 10% to the bottom 9% of the non-sleep deprived in her class.

39% of Americans work 50 or more hours.

18% work 60 or more.

6.8 hours: average sleep an America. Gets at night

2 weeks of 6 hours a night sleep makes a person effectively equivalent to a drunk person.

The amount of happiness resulting from the extra overtime pay in money from working 70 hours is less than the unhappiness from the imbalance of work-life it causes.

15 seconds: the average time we can wait for an elevator.

40 seconds: we start clenching our fists

10 minutes: the waiting time estimated by the people who waited for 2 minutes

4 seconds: maximum time we can wait before the door closes

Close Door: the most presses button in an elevator

On hard work:

“Voluminous productivity is the rule and not the exception among the individuals who have made some note-worthy contributions” Frank Barron, Professor at UC Santa Cruz

“The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary” Vidal Sassoon, Hair-styling Mogul

The Price Law: “Those individuals with the highest total output will, on average, produce the most acclaimed contributions as well”.

“The top 10% of workers produce 89% more than the average, and 700% more than the bottom 10%”

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Minimalism saves space
Saving space saves time
Saving time saves resources
Saving resources increases options
Increasing options increases potential life

“There is an inverse relationship between vanity and intelligence”. Majed

What science establishes as true is true regardless of your belief.

The only proper thing to say to your child when they report a problem that is happening with them is:

“and what are you going to do about it?”

The city that is a symbol of peace, became the capital of the state that is a symbol of war and violence.

In 2016, $3.5B was spent on lobbying.

That is equivalent to $5.9 million per member of Congress.

The average annual salary of a congressman is $175,000

We spend more and get less than industrial nations on:

Airline tickets
Medicine
Medical treatment
Education
Cable internet
Cellphone service
Food