Have Bad Handwriting The U.S. Postal Service Has Your Back ✦
If the computer can't read the address because of water damage or your grandmother's ornate script, it sends a picture of the address to a computer at the Remote Encoding Center.
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On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs - STRIKE! ✦
Huge swathes of people, in Europe and North America in particular, spend their entire working lives performing tasks they secretly believe do not really need to be performed. The moral and spiritual damage that comes from this situation is profound. It is a scar across our collective soul. Yet virtually no one talks about it.
The Secret Power of ‘Read It Later’ Apps — Forte Labs — Medium ✦
The end result is the same person who spends 127 hours per year on Instagram (the global average) complains that she has “no time” for reading.
How to Be Polite ✦
Sometimes I’ll get a call or email from someone five years after the last contact and I’ll think, oh right, I hated that person. But they would never have known, of course. Let’s see if I still hate them. Very often I find that I don’t. Or that I hated them for a dumb reason. Or that they were having a bad day.